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The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.


Hilaire Belloc

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You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.
SHOLOM ALEICHEM The Barbarian hopes — and that is the mark of him, that he can have his cake and eat it too.He wil...
HILAIRE BELLOC I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
HILAIRE BELLOC From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear o...
HILAIRE BELLOC From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the ...
HILAIRE BELLOC For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mi...
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it is said,
'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.
HILAIRE BELLOC Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part o...
HILAIRE BELLOC Remote and ineffectual don.
HILAIRE BELLOC Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
HILAIRE BELLOC Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could po...
HILAIRE BELLOC When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside w...
HILAIRE BELLOC It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
HILAIRE BELLOC I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is this -- we wande...
HILAIRE BELLOC To walk because it is good for you warps the sould, just as it warps the soul for a man to talk for ...
HILAIRE BELLOC I shoot the Hippopotamus
With bullets made of platinum,
Because if I use leaden ones
His hi...
HILAIRE BELLOC Matilda told such dreadful lies,
It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes;
Her aunt, who from h...
HILAIRE BELLOC It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
HILAIRE BELLOC Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
HILAIRE BELLOC Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff ...
HILAIRE BELLOC Child! Do not throw this book about;
Refrain from the unholy pleasure
Of cutting all the pictu...
HILAIRE BELLOC Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is of...
HILAIRE BELLOC I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is ...
HILAIRE BELLOC The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
HILAIRE BELLOC All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
HILAIRE BELLOC Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures ou...
HILAIRE BELLOC Money gives me pleasure all the time.
HILAIRE BELLOC There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance,...
HILAIRE BELLOC Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
HILAIRE BELLOC I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
HILAIRE BELLOC Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
HILAIRE BELLOC I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
HILAIRE BELLOC Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
HILAIRE BELLOC Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires...
HILAIRE BELLOC From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the we...
HILAIRE BELLOC Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of...
HILAIRE BELLOC Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nat...
HILAIRE BELLOC An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last ...
HILAIRE BELLOC The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefor...
HILAIRE BELLOC The grace of God is courtesy.
HILAIRE BELLOC Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
HILAIRE BELLOC I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, th...
HILAIRE BELLOC If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slave...
HILAIRE BELLOC All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea.
HILAIRE BELLOC I'm tired of love, I'm still more tired of rhyme, but money gives me pleasure all the time.
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
HILAIRE BELLOC Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.
HILAIRE BELLOC The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea.
HILAIRE BELLOC The Rich arrived in pairs
And also in Rolls Royces;
They talked of their affairs
In loud an...
HILAIRE BELLOC We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
HILAIRE BELLOC Statistics are people with the tears wiped from their eyes
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
HILAIRE BELLOC It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation
HILAIRE BELLOC Cautionary Verses for Children
HILAIRE BELLOC Oh! let us never, never doubt what nobody is sure about!
HILAIRE BELLOC And mothers of large families (who claim common sense) will find a Tiger well repay the trouble and ...
HILAIRE BELLOC Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, but Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.
HILAIRE BELLOC Physicians of the Utmost Fame Were called at once; but when they came they murmured as they took the...
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.
HILAIRE BELLOC Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires
HILAIRE BELLOC Alas! That such affected tricks/ Should flourish in a child of six!
HILAIRE BELLOC The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throa...
HILAIRE BELLOC I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'
HILAIRE BELLOC I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, th...
HILAIRE BELLOC Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of...
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read
HILAIRE BELLOC From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear o...
HILAIRE BELLOC Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff ...
HILAIRE BELLOC All that can best be expressed in words should be expressed in verse, but verse is a slow thing to c...
HILAIRE BELLOC Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could po...
HILAIRE BELLOC When you vaccinate someone, or when you get infected, the microbe is presenting itself to the immune...
ANTHONY FAUCI We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and yo...
VICKI LAWRENCE Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way yo...
MIRIAM MAKEBA You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.
AMIT KALANTRI People say, “What is the sense of our small effort?” They cannot see that we must lay one brick at...
DOROTHY DAY People say, “What is the sense of our small effort?” They cannot see that we must lay one brick ...
DOROTHY DAY Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it...
ARISTOTLE Thad: “But this is a boy, and you need to think of your reputation if you’re spending time alone...
C.J. REDWINE Would you not like to try all sorts of lives -- one is so very small -- but that is the satisfaction...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD Would you not like to try all sorts of lives / one is so very small / but that is the satisfaction o...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction o...
KATHERINE MANSFIELD All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, t...
HENRY LOUIS GATES The most effective strain is not always best at competing for nodules. Is it the plant or the microb...
ELLEN SIMMS No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
ELLEN GLASGOW When you look at how valuable this benefit is for legislators like myself and the fact that I run ve...
REP. DAVE CROOKS All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that yo...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it...
ARISTOTLE He is my son. But if a son does not care about the dignity of his family, God can take him. You cann...
ABDUL MANAN Funny how a dollar can look so big when you take it to church, and so small when you take it to the ...
UNKNOWN Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave h...
JOHN MILTON Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot...
GROVER NORQUIST Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
GAIL DEVERS Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
GERARD WAY Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
HEBBEL Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
JIMMY DEAN Small businesses are so dynamic. If you deliver a great product at a great price, they are very loya...
JUSTIN KITCH You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of h...
MARK TWAIN He's very tough. You look at him and don't think he's so athletic.
MATT COUTE So we were doing this scene, and the kids get 20 minutes a day, um, so, all I had to do was pick him...
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HILAIRE BELLOC From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear o...
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Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the ...
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'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.
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With bullets made of platinum,
Because if I use leaden ones
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HILAIRE BELLOC Matilda told such dreadful lies,
It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes;
Her aunt, who from h...
HILAIRE BELLOC It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
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HILAIRE BELLOC Child! Do not throw this book about;
Refrain from the unholy pleasure
Of cutting all the pictu...
HILAIRE BELLOC Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is of...
HILAIRE BELLOC I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is ...
HILAIRE BELLOC The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
HILAIRE BELLOC All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
HILAIRE BELLOC Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures ou...
HILAIRE BELLOC Money gives me pleasure all the time.
HILAIRE BELLOC There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance,...
HILAIRE BELLOC Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
HILAIRE BELLOC I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
HILAIRE BELLOC Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
HILAIRE BELLOC I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
HILAIRE BELLOC Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
HILAIRE BELLOC Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires...
HILAIRE BELLOC From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the we...
HILAIRE BELLOC Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of...
HILAIRE BELLOC Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nat...
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HILAIRE BELLOC The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefor...
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HILAIRE BELLOC I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, th...
HILAIRE BELLOC If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slave...
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HILAIRE BELLOC I'm tired of love, I'm still more tired of rhyme, but money gives me pleasure all the time.
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
HILAIRE BELLOC Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.
HILAIRE BELLOC The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea.
HILAIRE BELLOC The Rich arrived in pairs
And also in Rolls Royces;
They talked of their affairs
In loud an...
HILAIRE BELLOC We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
HILAIRE BELLOC Statistics are people with the tears wiped from their eyes
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
HILAIRE BELLOC It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation
HILAIRE BELLOC Cautionary Verses for Children
HILAIRE BELLOC Oh! let us never, never doubt what nobody is sure about!
HILAIRE BELLOC And mothers of large families (who claim common sense) will find a Tiger well repay the trouble and ...
HILAIRE BELLOC Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, but Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.
HILAIRE BELLOC Physicians of the Utmost Fame Were called at once; but when they came they murmured as they took the...
HILAIRE BELLOC When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.
HILAIRE BELLOC Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires
HILAIRE BELLOC Alas! That such affected tricks/ Should flourish in a child of six!
HILAIRE BELLOC The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throa...
HILAIRE BELLOC I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'
HILAIRE BELLOC I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, th...
HILAIRE BELLOC Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of...
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HILAIRE BELLOC Matilda told such dreadful lies It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes.
HILLAIRE BELLOC I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'.
HILAIRE BELLOCK You have to understand you're not in some people's shoes.
HILAIRE TOLSMA I often think if mirrors could give up their dead how wonderful it would be.
BESSIE PARKES BELLOC We don't compare. It's not my poem is better than yours. We're like a chorus. Some sing alto, some s...
MARY HILAIRE TAVENNER I am too much alien and not enough monkey to fit in here.
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