Ottomans quotes

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.
-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Powerful #Sick #Ottomans
Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.
-- Cory Doctorow

#Coffee #Black #Ottomans
When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?
-- Julie Burchill

#Looks #Ottomans #Inmates
If clothes look like a couch or an ottoman or a love seat, you just wanna stay away from it.
-- Santino Rice

#Clothes #Ottomans #Looks

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.
The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up
Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.
Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.
it seems a stray bullet actually pierced the ***** of a Union soldier and lodged itself in the ovaries of a woman standing approximately 100 ft. away. She's alright, the baby's doing fine...ofcourse the soldier's a little pissed off...
In former times, God, who is without form or body, could never be depicted. But now when God is seen in the flesh conversing with men, I make an image of the God whom I see. I do not worship matter; I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake.
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery