Wholesome Quotes
More Wholesome Quotes
In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
winston churchill— Quoted by Lord Normanbrook in Action This Day: Working With Churchill. Memoirs by Lord Norman Brook (And Others) (1968)Often misquoted as: Eating my words has never given me indigestion.[6]
No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. Theyall require to have their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
Marquess of Salisbury Robert— 1877 Letter to Lord Lytton,15 Jun. Quoted in Lady Gwendolen Cecil Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury (1921-32), vol.2, ch.4.
Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what doyoualwaysfind? Thatthestables arethereal centre of the household.
George Bernard Shaw— 1919 Lady Utterword. Heartbreak House, act 3.
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my Acquaintance in London; that a young healthy Child, well nursed, is, at aYearold, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome Food; whether Stewed,Roasted,Baked, or Boiled; and,I make no doubt, that it will equally serve in a Fricassee, or a Ragout.
jonathan swift— 1729 A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from being a Burden to their Parents or Country.
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity nor conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.
suzanne curchod— Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 197.
Yielding more wholesome food than all the messesThat now taste-curious wanton plenty dresses.
guillaume de salluste du bartas— Second Week, First Day, Part i. Compare: "Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses", John Milton, L'Allegro, line 85.
There is ... a clever maxim which bears upon what I was saying to you some little while ago, and that is, that unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a [[right] and wholesome state, revolts at crime. Still, from an artificial civilisation have originated wants, vices, and false tastes, which occasionally become so powerful as to stifle within us all good feelings, and ultimately to lead us into guilt and wickedness...
alexandre dumas— Chapter 17
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
ralph waldo emerson— Uses of Great Men
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Daniel Webster— Speech at the Charleston Bar Dinner (May 10, 1847); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), volume ii, page 393.
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.
l. frank baum— Introduction
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
mark twain— Vol. II, Conclusion
The soul that companies with Virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught; sweet, rich, and generous of its store; that injures not, neither destroys.
epictetus— Fragment ii.
To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.
thomas fuller— The Virtuous Lady.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
james russell lowell— Dryden.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
james russell lowell— Dryden.
A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.
bertrand russell— "On Denoting", Mind, Vol. 14, No. 56 (October 1905), pp. 479–493; as reprinted in Logic and Knowledge: Essays, 1901–1950, (1956).
" water from clay pipes is much more wholesome than that which is conducted through lead pipes, because lead is found to be harmful for the reason that white lead is derived from it, and this is said to be hurtful to the human system. "
vitruvius— Chapter VI, Sec. 10
Hence, water ought by no means to be conducted in lead pipes, if we want to have it wholesome. That the taste is better when it comes from clay pipes may be proved by everyday life, for though our tables are loaded with silver vessels, yet everybody uses earthenware for the sake of purity of taste.
vitruvius— Chapter VI, Sec. 11
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
james russell lowell— James Russell Lowell, Among my Books, Dryden.
A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.
— Bertrand Russell, "On Denoting", Mind, Vol. 14, No. 56 (October 1905), pp. 479–493; as reprinted in Logic and Knowledge: Essays, 1901–1950, (1956)
I will go root away The noisome weeds which without profit suck The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Richard II (c. 1595), Act III, scene 4, line 37.
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity nor conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.
suzanne curchod
Then sought out Envy in her dark abode, Defil'd with ropy gore and clots of blood: Shut from the winds, and from the wholesome skies, In a deep vale the gloomy dungeon lies, Dismal and cold, where not a beam of light Invades the winter, or disturbs the night. ... She never smiles but when the wretched weep, Nor lulls her malice with a moment's sleep, Restless in spite: while watchful to destroy, She pines and sickens at another's joy; Foe to her self, distressing and distrest, She bears her own tormentor in her breast.
ovid— Ovid, Metamorphoses: Book II
An album is a garden, not for show Planted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow.
Charles Lamb— Charles Lamb, In an Album to a Clergyman's Lady
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.
anatole france— The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (vol. 1 of The Works of Anatole France), trans. Lafcadio Hearn, part 2, chapter 4, June 6, 1860, p. 198 (1924).
The Fear of God is healthful; it is an awe and a profound reverence for the Creator and a wholesome dread of displeasing him.
— Insight, Volume 1, it-1 pp. 818-819, at Watchtower online library
Already I had learned from thee that because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false. Nor, again, is it necessarily true because rudely uttered, nor untrue because the language is brilliant. Wisdom and folly both are like meats that are wholesome and unwholesome, and courtly or simple words are like town-made or rustic vessels both kinds of food may be served in either kind of dish.
— V, 6
— Variation on the middle sentence: A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
— Variation on the middle sentence: A thing is not necessarily false because it is badly expressed, nor true because it is expressed magnificently.
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education . This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
— Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to William Charles Jarvis, (28 September 1820)
