Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?


Philip Larkin

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Between my finger and my thumb
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Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
PHILIP MASSINGER
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a v...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO
Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movi...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO
Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species...
PHILIP ROTH
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion
PHILIP WYLIE
All this, and Heaven too!
PHILIP HENRY
Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what ...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos...
PHILIP SIDNEY
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in y...
PHILIP PULLMAN
The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim ...
PHILIP CROSBY
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the w...
PHILIP CALDWELL
Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.
PHILIP MASSINGER
I got a good heart but my attitude gat people thinking I'm evil
GENEREUX PHILIP
A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an arm...
PHILIP ROTH
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy un...
PHILIP ROTH
Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagina...
PHILIP PULLMAN
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely p...
PHILIP STREIFER
I don't believe in it. All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes rea...
PHILIP PULLMAN
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly whe...
PHILIP ROTH
You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruit...
PHILIP MASSINGER
You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
PHILIP PULLMAN
If God could run out of grace, He would’ve for me by now. And yet every morning I wake up, He says...
GENEREUX PHILIP
To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God ...
PHILIP YANCEY
There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willi...
PHILIP PULLMAN
We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and si...
PHILIP PULLMAN
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
PHILIP PULLMAN
Keep away from the kinship of the individuals who continually ask and examine the imperfections of o...
GENEREUX PHILIP
I can’t bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel,” she continued. “Sooner anything than that. I us...
PHILIP PULLMAN
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
PHILIP KNIGHT
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
PHILIP MASSINGER
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
PHILIP WYLIE
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so...
PHILIP ROTH
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you con...
PHILIP ROTH
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the...
PHILIP GUEDALLA
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
PHILIP JOHNSON
Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, an...
PHILIP ROTH
Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survive...
PHILIP BUTLER
When in doubt, delete it.
PHILIP COSBY
When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
PHILIP ROTH
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
PHILIP MASSINGER
We do pretty much whatever we want to.
PHILIP JOHNSON
It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
PHILIP GIBBS