quotes about Collecting Things

“Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it.”

“The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.”

“Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.”

Source : The Health Master Ch.3

“One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.”

Source : "Great speeches of the 20th century: Emmeline Pankhurst's Freedom or death". www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2007.

“The learned should be vigorous and diligent, but they should also be free-spirited. If they are too rigorous and austere, they have the death-dealing quality of autumn but lack the life-giving quality of spring. How can they develop people then?”

“Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated.”

“I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.”

“Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.”

“I don't want to compare Bowditch to Matt Le Tissier, but the way he scored his goal was similar to Matt.”

“Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of all possible reasons for doing so - the imperative, invincible call of God. No one is to show cause why he ought not to be a Minister: he is to show cause why he should be a Minister. His call to the sacred profession is not the absence of a call to any other pursuit; it is direct, immediate, powerful, to this very department of labour. He is not here because he can be nowhere else, but he is nowhere else because he must be here.”