Wholesome Quotes

205 quotes by 168 authors

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. — Isaac Barrow
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,… — Ambrose Bierce
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… — Winston Churchill
I hate the word wholesome. — Julie Andrews
Beer is a wholesome liquor.....it abounds with nourishment — Benjamin Rush
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be… — Aristotle
Who loves a garden, still his Eden keeps, Perennial pleasures plants, and wholesome harvests reaps. — Amos Bronson Alcott
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley
Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the… — George Bernard Shaw
I'm telling America we need to not discriminate against faith-based programs. We need to welcome them so our society is more wholesome, more welcoming, and… — George W. Bush
The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons… — Billy Graham
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great… — Calvin Coolidge
There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the… — Charles Lamb
How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome… — James Thomas Fields
You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller. — William Shakespeare
The rapid growth of industry, the ever increasing population and the imperative need for more varied, wholesome and nourishing foodstuff makes it all the more… — George Washington Carver
Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined.… — Timothy Leary
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple,… — Larry McMurtry

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