"Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening."

-- Gertrude Stein

#Dog Quotes #War Quotes #Dark Quotes

“[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we should desire. Christian freedom lies in service, Christian equality is equality before God, and neither can be achieved through the coercive efforts of liberal idealists who would transform the world into their image.”
“Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.”
“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
“The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.”
“My senior year of high school, I was voted Wittiest. So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.”
“They were indeed great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost.”

Source : Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen (1952). “Tales of Grimm and Andersen”
“Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.”
“When you get a black belt, it’s not the number of techniques you know, but how well you know them.”

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