George Fordyce quotes

“Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration?”
-- George Fordyce

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“One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.”
-- George Fordyce

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“Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.”

“I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.”

“One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.”

“The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'”

“If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her! But then, if she wants to, what can I do? But definitely not until she's 18 years old. You know, every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.”

“Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.”

“William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.”

“We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.”

“If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.”

Source : Alan Bennett (2010). “The Complete Talking Heads”, p.56, Macmillan

“I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.”

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