"A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist."

-- Desiderius Erasmus

#Wine Quotes #Beer Quotes #Bread Quotes

“I invite you to not only love each other more but love each other better.”
“In any given moment, a man's growth is optimized if he leans just beyond his edge, his capacity, his fear. He should not be too lazy, happily stagnating in the zone of security and comfort. Nor should he push far beyond his edge, stressing himself unnecessarily, unable to metabolize his experience. He should lean just slightly beyond the edge of fear and discomfort. Constantly. In everything he does.”
“Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it.”
“After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.”
“It's difficult to end with bangs if the judge takes away our ammunition.”

Source : "Simpson tells judge he is innocent" by Anne McDermott, www.cnn.com. September 22, 1995.
“human names for natural things are superfluous. Nature herself does not name them. The important thing is to know this flower, look at its color until the blueness becomes as real as a keynote of music.”

Source : Sally Carrighar (1974). “Home to the wilderness: a personal journey”, Viking Pr
“It's easy to whip up resentment against anything that smacks with authority. Nobody ever organizes over pan handlers. So even if a cop is black, like the three arrested in Baltimore, or one dead in Mississippi, the hard left uses race as the underlying cause. It's why there are no defiant marches when policemen are killed.”
“It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.”

Source : "My Mother's House". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1922.

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