H.P. Oliver Quotes

The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.

The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

You must not ever stop being whimsical.

I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you've got to do, and then hours later you've got a lovely dinner.

No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.

I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.

Attention is the beginning of devotion.

Only the young die good.

Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day.

An Englishman fears contempt more than death.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

You only live once, so enjoy the ride.

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

The best food I've ever eaten in my life has come from the poorest communities.

A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.

It was as though the darkness was a sheet of raw cookie dough and someone had just taken a cookie cutter and made a child-sized shape out of it.

The poverty line is like the age of consent: if you find yourself parsing exactly where it is, you’ve probably already done something very, very wrong.

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.

Sarah Palin has been hired back by Fox News, and she only left five months ago. She has now effectively quit quitting. She can't even commit to being uncommitted.

But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.

Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!

Integration begins the day after the minds of the people are desegregated.

The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.

You meet a better class of person in pubs.

I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied.

Euclid for children is barbarous.

Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.

I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.

Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of humankind pass by.

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living

Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.

The sea is the most beautiful face in our universe.

...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.

O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.

And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain.