Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?
Mark Bittman
Related If I can't pronounce it, I don't want to put it in my body. Everything to me now is organic,... SHARON JONES Organic production has a particular challenge since the ideology of organic production and the expec... SIGRID AGENäS I try to apply the organic concept to my clothes and bedding as well. There's nothing like swimm... WOODY HARRELSON We get 'em in when they're 3 days old. We put their pens around growing feed crops, so they can feed... JAMES MORROW If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to it... EPICTETUS There is dignity in farming, so farm with pride SOTONYE ANGA People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem qui... STEVE MARABOLI [Parents] think their kids can dress themselves and they can feed themselves and they can let themse... LINDA PERLSTEIN How can the federal government feed its employees with catered meals and not feed the victims of Hur... COLLEEN COOKE The smart way to be assured of quality organic food is to join a community-sponsored agriculture (CS... CAROLYN DEAN There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathemat... ROBERT ROBINSON It shows just that much more effort toward being dedicated to serving organic and making sure the pr... JAKE LEWIN You get lots of people, especially where I live, who go in to a butcher and insist on organic beef -... TOM PARKER BOWLES We all know the saying that if you give a man a fish you feed him for a day, but if you teach him ho... CHARBEL TADROS Give a man a fish, you feed him for the day.
Teach a man to fish, you feed him for life. ANONYMOUS The WFP has nothing in its pipeline that would allow us to feed this refugee population beyond the e... SIMON PLUESS Nothing I do is natural, realistic, organic or accidental. I'm never spontaneous, I'm completely pre... NUNO ROQUE A family from Boxborough that only eats organic and even mills their own grains comes in for organic... DIDI CHADRAN Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. CHINESE PROVERB Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. MAIMONIDES Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. PROVERB Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. LAO TZU Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force ... HIPPOCRATES If we only take a hard look at the facts of life, we will know that, really, nothing is in our hands... OSHO If you have a busy natural foods store in your community, give their bulk cornmeal a try: high turno... JEREMY JACKSON To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions... MICHAEL SPECTER Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals tha... RAMEZ NAAM Organic farm products enjoy great potential in the overseas market, particularly in developed countr... HUANG XIN To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is sy... JOHN KRICFALUSI When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA The more natural or eco-based products you can introduce into your beauty regimen, the more benefici... IVANKA TRUMP The supply side of things has changed. If you grow organic produce there are firms that will find a ... DIANA DANIELS We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed ... JAMES STEPHENS Organic foods are richer in nutrients. This means they improve satiety and naturally help regulate b... CYNTHIA SASS An organic diet does provide protective measures for pesticide exposure in kids. CHENSHENG LU Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, ... MICHAEL POLLAN This is huge, and it's certainly the mark of the beginning of a trend in food service toward organic... JAKE LEWIN Some men are so lazy they won't even feed themselves. BIBLE The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that ha... NICHOLAS MOSLEY The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy. RONALD KNOX I can buy a frozen salmon right now, or I can buy a farm-raised salmon. But I just don't want to fea... JACK MITCHELL There's a great metaphor that one of my doctors uses: If a fish is swimming in a dirty tank and ... KRIS CARR The DPRK is a chronically food-insecure country. It's never going to produce enough food to feed its... RICHARD RAGAN There are no answers in it. Everyone finds their own truth. At the end, the answers are yours, ... T... WARD POWERS This was to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some even greater variation, that she... MARCEL PROUST If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at le... LUDWIG FEUERBACH If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism — at l... LUDWIG FEUERBACH Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.... TERRY PRATCHETT Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.... TERRY PRATCHETT The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, i... LEONARDO DA VINCI The company created and defined its own category, and now the name is synonymous with organic food s... EDWARD AARON THE ORGANIC FOODS MYTH A few decades ago, a woman tried to sue a butter company that had ... SUZY KASSEM We've long been aware of the environmental responsibilities you've got when you're in this kind of b... ANGUS MACMILLAN It's their security blanket, ... We feed them … fish, vitamins and medicine. MOBY I feed my devils, so they let me live in peace, with peace. EHDDAH If you want to know how good a tree is, examine how many birds flock to feed off of its fruit. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Everyone has their own boat, it's a matter of pulling it out of the sand, and putting it in the wate... ANTHONY LICCIONE Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by. LAURIE COLWIN I am thinking about the past, I am living in the past but my body is in the present. Where am I? I m... EPHDAN Our investigation has taken us back to the farm, which is known to be the birth farm of this cow, an... GEORGE LUTERBACH If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. MOTHER TERESA Now you can get artisanal everything - pickles, coffees, house-cured meats, mustard. The pendulum ha... ADAM RICHMAN Most of the spread is what people do wrong. Moving chickens improperly from farm to farm, or moving ... GARY BUTCHER If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine. JOHN HARRISON Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do... VERNOR VINGE Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willing... J.G. BALLARD If I spoke to Rodman in those terms, saying that my grandparents' lives seem to me organic and ours ... WALLACE STEGNER One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresp... KRESLEY COLE There is nothing safe in religion, except in such a course of behaviour that leaves nothing for corr... WILLIAM LAW You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even ... RALPH STEADMAN will the crocodile not feed if there are no fishes in the river? will the hen not peck its chick if ... JOVITA OBADOLAGBONYI In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are ... NATALIE JEREMIJENKO If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When you're shopping for fish, ask the grocer if they're ocean caught or wild caught, and not farm r... PAM PORTER The majority of the diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they ha... ELLEN G. WHITE The smart way to be assured of quality organic food is to join a community-sponsored agriculture (CS... CAROLYN DEAN MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endea... AMBROSE BIERCE The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to... DAVID F. HOUSTON Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest in... PIERRE CHARRON I'm concerned about misapplication of certain feed by-products. We have a lot of options available. ... JASON SAWYER I'm concerned about misapplication of certain feed by-products. We have a lot of options available. ... JASON SAWYER Yet the organic label itself—like every other such label in the supermarket—is really just an im... MICHAEL POLLAN If you feel organic is the way to go, that option is available to you in Colorado. JAMES HILL Never let a bad day cause you to give a lack of effort in life. When you are downs your experiences ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Between the training and the paperwork, the fact of the matter is that organic certification for a r... JAKE LEWIN Choose organic produce whenever you possibly can and if you can afford it. HEIDI MURKOFF Insecurity has in most cases has nothing to do with the you...its to do with the other person and th... DRU EDMUND KUCHERERA I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens,... SALMA HAYEK The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reach... LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE The money I'm making is barely enough to feed the chickens in my farm. If things don't get better so... ALI DAW Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my ... GRACE JONES Organic to Go was founded on the principle of providing delicious, convenient breakfasts and lunches... JASON BROWN And just look at these men: their eye saith it - they know nothing better on earth than to be with a... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Environment has its own ways of limiting us tightly. But leaders have their own ways of escaping tho... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is th... ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Fierce extremesIn their continuances will not feed themselves. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If a brand genuinely wants to make a social contribution, it should start with who they are, not wha... SIMON MAINWARING I'm really into natural and organic products. CHANEL IMAN In Ireland they try to make a cat cleanly by rubbing its nose in its own filth. Mr. Joyce has tried ... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond... HOWARD THURMAN
More Mark Bittman
The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating fo... MARK BITTMAN Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottle... MARK BITTMAN Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and ca... MARK BITTMAN I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, t... MARK BITTMAN 1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight. MARK BITTMAN The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by ... MARK BITTMAN It is safe to say that the current antitrust case has major long-term implications for Microsoft's o... TOM BITTMAN Well, some of the methods -- the deals you have to make, for example. ROBERT BITTMAN An internal breakthrough is a burden, an external one is a blessing. MARK I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It'... MARK BILLINGHAM Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. MARK TWAIN I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always ... MARK SHRIVER My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. MARK TWAIN Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. MARK TWAIN It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha... MARK TWAIN We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them. MARK SKOUSEN The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Flori... MARK FOLEY The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession. MARK TWAIN India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India ... MARK TWAIN Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. MARK TWAIN I never let schooling interfere with my education. MARK TWAIN Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. MARK TWAIN Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. MARK TWAIN The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed rig... MARK TWAIN There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. MARK TWAIN In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. MARK TWAIN Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here firs... MARK TWAIN But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one... MARK TWAIN The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. MARK TWAIN The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. MARK TWAIN Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of ti... MARK TWAIN It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. MARK TWAIN The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become. MARK TWAIN The lack of money is the root of all evil. MARK TWAIN Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. MARK TWAIN When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudony... MARK ZUCKERBERG Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled. MARK TWAIN Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. MARK TWAIN Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired. MARK TWAIN Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. MARK TWAIN My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But mos... MARK WARNER There are lies, damned lies and statistics. MARK TWAIN Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. MARK TWAIN Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside... MARK TWAIN Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. MARK TWAIN The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. MARK TWAIN Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. MARK TWAIN I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping. MARK TWAIN The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. MARK TWAIN All generalizations are false, including this one. MARK TWAIN 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read. MARK TWAIN I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day. MARK ZUCKERBERG The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a ba... MARK TWAIN The secret of getting ahead is getting started. MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. MARK TWAIN I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places. MARK TWAIN There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I deci... MARK VONNEGUT There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fan... MARK ZANDI Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we sp... MARK PAGEL I made my name and reputation DJing in hip-hop clubs in New York. 'Celebrity DJ' is a term t... MARK RONSON Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until tradit... MARK FRAUENFELDER Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. MARK TWAIN I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't. MARK GATISS Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is ... MARK MCKINNON If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half. MARK TWAIN I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries. MARK ZUCKERBERG Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce... MARK HOPKINS Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it... MARK HAMILL What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet! MARK MCKINNEY To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. MARK EDWARDS What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ... MARK TWAIN When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B... MARK TWAIN When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymu... MARK TWAIN The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly... MARK TWAIN By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec... MARK TWAIN So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment. MARK TWAIN The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes... MARK TWAIN We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest w... MARK TWAIN The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the diff... MARK TWAIN Say the report is exaggerated. MARK TWAIN A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will ... MARK TWAIN To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. MARK TWAIN I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than ... MARK TWAIN A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; t... MARK TWAIN Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the st... MARK TWAIN Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred mi... MARK TWAIN Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to... MARK TWAIN We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ... MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. MARK TWAIN All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people... MARK TWAIN Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find... MARK TWAIN Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood... MARK TWAIN As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out. MARK TWAIN I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshol... MARK TWAIN Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than... MARK TWAIN The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without burst... MARK TWAIN When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. MARK TWAIN All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. MARK TWAIN The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh... MARK TWAIN To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand ... MARK TWAIN All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'pay... MARK SKOUSEN Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset ... MARK GATISS I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f... MARK RUFFALO There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of t... MARK ZANDI I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you. MARK MCKINNEY Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the ... MARK ZANDI James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t... MARK WAHLBERG There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the ... MARK GODDARD I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Los... MARK GODDARD I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry abou... MARK RONSON Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like goin... MARK KELLY I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have t... MARK FROST We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunit... MARK RUTTE We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-s... MARK RUTTE We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to... MARK ZUCKERBERG Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can affor... MARK ZANDI The best person to get something done is a busy person. MARK BURNETT The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good... MARK STEYN I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the pres... MARK MCKINNON Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we shoul... MARK MCKINNON Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, t... MARK HOPPUS The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,... MARK ZANDI In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not tryi... MARK WAHLBERG When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting th... MARK WATERS Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person. MARK TWAIN It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal... MARK TWAIN Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired MARK TWAIN It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help. MARK TWAIN Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to. MARK TWAIN Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting... MARK TWAIN To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do. MARK TWAIN Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest. MARK TWAIN The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itse... MARK TWAIN Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would ... MARK TWAIN If you're a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I'm just a working stiff. I don'... MARK FUHRMAN There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. MARK TWAIN The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things tha... MARK TWAIN Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled MARK TWAIN Necessity is the mother of "taking chances" MARK TWAIN I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was rea... MARK RUFFALO Distance lends enchantment to the view MARK TWAIN Be good and you will be lonesome. MARK TWAIN Chastity - you can carry it too far MARK TWAIN The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline ... MARK RUSSELL To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble. MARK TWAIN Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in it... MARK TWAIN Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. MARK TWAIN Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshel... MARK FRAUENFELDER Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk... MARK BILLINGHAM China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main ... MARK CARWARDINE When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one. MARK TWAIN There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many... MARK TWAIN Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you. MARK TWAIN Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, out... MARK FROST I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and lookin... MARK TWAIN The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half ... MARK EDWARDS A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. MARK RUTHERFORD Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would... MARK TWAIN Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relati... MARK TWAIN Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material... MARK TWAIN Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no... MARK TWAIN There is a great deal of human nature in people. MARK TWAIN If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance. MARK TWAIN There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. MARK TWAIN The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monot... MARK TWAIN Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. MARK TWAIN Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat... MARK TWAIN It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts th... MARK TWAIN Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income... MARK ZANDI Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe... MARK KENNEDY There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles. MARK ZUPAN Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f... MARK LAWRENCE Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement,... MARK TWAIN Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of t... MARK TWAIN I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. ... MARK UDALL I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things th... MARK HADDON Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it. MARK TWAIN Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind. MARK TWAIN We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him. MARK TWAIN As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected. MARK RUTTE He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magi... MARK RYDELL I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it an... MARK MCGWIRE O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover th... MARK TWAIN A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose. MARK TWAIN Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so,... MARK TWAIN There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to... MARK TWAIN All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will... MARK MCCORMACK I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treas... MARK TWAIN We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.” Snorri shook his head. “A... MARK LAWRENCE Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich... MARK TWAIN Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide i... MARK TWAIN Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us... MARK TWAIN Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. MARK TWAIN Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. MARK TWAIN I do not like work even when someone else does it. MARK TWAIN Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not oblig... MARK TWAIN Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. MARK TWAIN Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time. MARK TWAIN No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies. MARK TWAIN We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether th... MARK TWAIN