“ What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law. ”
- John Christian Bovee- Copy
“ Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
“ In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
“ Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed. ”
- Desiderius Erasmus- Copy
“ Just as there is a trend toward high tech today, there is another trend toward high touch - homemade and wholesome. ”
- Meryl Gardner- Copy
“ We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people. ”
- George Lincoln Rockwell- Copy
“ The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us. ”
- John Williams- Copy
“ The noisome weeds, that without profit suck The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ Wine can be considered with good reason as the most healthful and the most hygienic of all beverages. ”
- Louis Pasteur- Copy
“ He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. ”
- Dr. Isaac Barrow- Copy
“ Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life. ”
- Mikhail Gorbachev- Copy
“ Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
“ Every sect is a moral check on its neighbor. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. ”
- Walter Savage Landor- Copy
“ For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect. ”
- Thomas Hobbes- Copy
“ Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people, and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
“ If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. ”
- Lord Salisbury- Copy
“ Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
“ One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
“ Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch. ”
- Sir Richard Steele- Copy
“ Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
“ The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
“ The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art. ”
- Frank Moore Colby- Copy
“ There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ”
- Henry Fielding- Copy
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