John

“It is a well-known fact that the Black Death was brought into England by lawyers.”
― Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

“A cocktail or two, or several, I found, cheered me up for the foolishness of foolish people. A cocktail, or several, before dinner, enabled me to laugh whole-heartedly at things which had long since ceased being laughable. The cocktail was a prod, a spur, a kick, to my jaded mind and bored spirits.”
― Jack London, John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs

“When a population becomes dependent on government for the needs, and even the whims of life, it becomes “infantilized.” In this condition both the rewards for responsible behavior and the penalties for irresponsible behavior have vanished. What follows is a concept of individualism so extreme that each individual is free to invent or adopt his or her own private morality.”
― William Davis Eaton, Liberal Betrayal of America and the Tea Party Firestorm

“For dinner they ate the stewed pumpkin with their bread. They made it into pretty shapes on their plates. It was a beautiful color, and smoothed and molded so prettily with their knives. Ma never allowed them to play with their food at table; they must always eat nicely everything that was set before them, leaving nothing on their plates. But she did let them make the rich, brown, stewed pumpkin into pretty shapes before they ate it.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods