| "It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry." »H.L. Mencken |
| "I don't want to spend the next two years in holiday Inns." »Walter Frederick Mondale |
| "A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative." »Oscar Wilde |
| "Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right." »Kurt Herbert Alder |
| "Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm." »Pamela Ribon |
| "We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force..." »Louis D. Brandeis |
| "Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production." »Ayn Rand |
| "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living" »Amanda Bradley |
| "All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work." »Thomas John Watson, Sr. |
| "The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song" »John Burroughs |
| "Hither the heroes and nymphs resort,To taste awhile the pleasures of a courtIn various talk th'instuctive hours they past,Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lastOne speaks the glory of the British Queen,And one describes a charming Indian screenlA third interprets motions, looks and eyesAt every word a reputation dies." »Alexander Pope |
| "Paul was to know and proclaim God's will, His purpose, in view of Israel's rejection of christ. Had god been taken by surprise in the crucifixion of Christ Would He now be forced to resort to some makeshift arrangement No, for the crucifixion was all part of--indeed, the central part of, His secret, eternal plan, now revealed to Paul." »Cornelius Stam |
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