quotes about Pewter

last updated: November 28, 2023

God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.
-- John Crowe Ransom

Source : 1955 Poems and Essays,'Survey of Literature'.

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“When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.”
“Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.”
“A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.”
“The best comedy is always played straight down the middle.”
“There are three possible ways to react to right-wing extremist parties. The first is to act as though they don't exist and to no longer risk taking political initiatives that could get these parties against you. The second reaction is to chase after these right-wing extremist parties in fascination. The third is to say, these people are my true enemies and to engage them in battle.”
“I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox”
“Chocolate is a vegetable. Honest.”
“The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.”

Source : Storm Jameson (1926). “Three kingdoms”
“Survivor is like rock 'n' roll - you can do what you want.”
“So I came to the realization: Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life.”

Source : Rob Lowe (2011). “Stories I Only Tell My Friends: An Autobiography”, p.303, Macmillan