Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.
-- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage.
I'm a vegetarian. You're a what? I don't eat meat. How can you not eat meat? I just don't. He says he does not eat meat. What? No meat? No meat. Steak? No... Chickens! No... And what about the sausage? No, no sausage, no meat! He says he does not eat any meat. Not even sausage? I know! What is wrong with him? What is wrong with you? Nothing, I just don't eat meat!

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy famous quotes

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