Cottages Quotes - Page 2

• There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Believe, Animal, Men

  William Jennings Bryan, Joe Cain (2009). “William Jennings Bryan's Last Message: A Reprint of His Famous Closing Arguments for the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, Undelivered and Posthumously Published”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

  Sally Quinn

  Home, Wine, Glasses

  "FIVE QUESTIONS FOR . . . / Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn / Journalism heroes turn focus to aging". Interview with Paul Wilner, www.sfgate.com. May 15, 2005.

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• I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be.

  Thomas Dolby

  Running, Dream, Reality

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• If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

  William Shakespeare

  Teaching, Men, Church

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 2, l. [13]

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• To help my muscles rebuild after I work out, I have a small serving of cottage cheese.

  Brooke Burns

  Work Out, Cheese, Helping

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• For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.

  Phillips Brooks

  Christmas, Children, Palaces

  Phillips Brooks, “Christmas Everywhere”

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• A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fear, Book, Writing

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.13

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• I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.

  Stephen King

  Weed, Marijuana, Dope

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Inspiration, Palaces, Rich

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• All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook, all day on lake or river, while he takes his sport, he thinks. All the long evenings in camp, or cottage, or inn, he tells stories of his own life, hears stories of his friend's lives, and if alone calls up the magic of memory.

  William Cowper Prime

  Sports, Memories, Thinking

  William Cowper Prime (1873). “I Go A-fishing”, p.187

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• Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

  Horace

  Grieving, Doors, Palaces

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• I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc

  David Brainerd

  Prayer, Littles, Etc

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• The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Сrown. It may be frail - its roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter - the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter.

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

  Kings, Rain, Blow

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham's speech on the Excise Bill in the House of Commons (March 1763), as quoted in Lord Brougham "Historical Sketches of Statesmen Who Flourished in the Time of George III, Volume I" (p. 42), 1839.

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• I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"

  E. Nesbit

  Weed, Sweet, Stars

  Edith Nesbit, “Seed-Time And Harvest”

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• Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Vices, Court, Vice And Virtue

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.324

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• Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Kings, Book, Common Sense

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “The Illustrated Walden: Thoreau Bicentennial Edition”, p.107, Penguin

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• Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.

  Joseph Warren

  Lonely, Liberty, Slavery

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• I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water, and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing, What! all this, and Christ too?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessing, Hands, Water

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.180, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ambition, Errors, Suffering

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.19

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• There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

  Robert Owen

  Heart, Men, Palaces

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• The little smiling cottage! where at eve
  He meets his rosy children at the door,
  Prattling their welcomes, and his honest wife,
  With good brown cake and bacon slice, intent
  To cheer his hunger after labor hard.

  Edward Dyer

  Cheer, Children, Home

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• The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Wall, Home

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: A patriot after all, 1940-1941”

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• The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.

  Edmund Waller

  Time, Home, Dark

  'On the Foregoing Divine Poems' l. 18

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• Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

  Mary Wesley

  Running, Years, Car

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• In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are halfconcealed, but from whose chimneys the smoke cheerfully ascends.... We enjoy now, not an Oriental, but a Boreal leisure, around warm stoves and fireplaces, and watch the shadow of motes in the sunbeams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heart, Winter, Doors

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