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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
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The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ***** begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
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The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, no matter how large a horse's ***** you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal.
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Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.
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If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress.
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A camel is a horse designed by committee.
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.
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Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
