"Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen . . . They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling."

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Phyllis McGinley

#Boys Quotes #Men Quotes #Knives Quotes

“Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus, no minute processes upon the unknown processes of matter. It demands only an enquiring mind and senses alive to the facts almost everywhere presented in nature. And as it may be acquired without much difficulty, so it may be improved without much painful exertion.”
“The media companies control whether a candidate gets "coverage" - which itself is tied to the knowledge of how much he or she has raised. The networks then know how much money the candidate is likely to spend on commercial airtime buys - so, this is a reinforcing system of legal corruption and quid pro quo news coverage.”
“The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer.”
“The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue.”
“Adventure is the essence of life.”

Source : "U.S. balloonists forced down shortly after launch". www.cnn.com. January 9, 1998.
“The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.”

Source : Bo Lozoff (2001). “It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice”, p.25, Penguin
“The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.”
“A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed.”

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