John Stuart Blackie Quotes

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

John Stuart Blackie

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• Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Future
  • Action
  • Design

• Nothing is absolute in security.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Nothing
  • Security
  • Absolute

• I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Heaven
  • Dog
  • Walking

• I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • City
  • Comedy
  • Amazing

• The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Important
  • Strong

• Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Liberty

• I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Read
  • Paper

• To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Part
  • Taxes
  • Payment

• The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Road
  • Hell
  • Milestones

• I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Trying
  • Mother
  • Myself

• Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

  

  J. Cole
  • Taken
  • Risk
  • Hot

• Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Hope
  • You
  • Human

• The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters.

  

  Tara Strong
  • People
  • Good
  • Game

• I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Change
  • Fashion
  • Confidence

• I like to laugh and make people have fun.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Fun
  • Laugh

• As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Actor

• My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Attention
  • Technology
  • Race

• If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

  

  Keith Miller
  • Life
  • God
  • Important

• Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's kicked off a refinance boom that's going to put more money in the pockets of consumers.

  

  Franklin Raines
  • Money

• Tea! Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a morning; thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart- opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate thus, and … adore thee.

  

  Colley Cibber
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Together

• I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Confidence

• Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Mind

• Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

  

  John Stuart Blackie
  • Water
  • Wine
  • Tea