"There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips."

-- Walter Scott

#Southern Quotes #Fine Quotes #Parsnips Quotes

“Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.”
“What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?”
“Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.”
“Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.”

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“Peter stood, cleared his throat, and began to hum softly, then sing, slowly building up the song as his voice cleared. He found the old tune, the song of the Sunbird. And as he sung, as his rich voice echoed off the tall cliffs, the birds and the faeries lent him their voice and soon the tune drifted throughtout the garden.”
“I think it's very easy to get self-conscious and stuck when you're doing everything on your own.”
“if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow”
“Even the sky was grey. Grey and grey and greyer. The whole world grey, everywhere you look, everything grey except the eyes of the bride. The eyes of the bride were brown. Big and brown and full of fear.”

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