Quote

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

Tom Robbins

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
Author
Autobiographer
Biographer
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Blowing Rock
North Carolina
Thomas Eugene Robbins
Crime
Name
Public
Names
Inspirational
Heinous
Country
Forgive
Forgiving
Committed

More quotes by Tom Robbins

Image
The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.
Tom Robbins
Image
The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.
Tom Robbins
Image
As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the call of nature will be answered by a machine.
Tom Robbins
Image
Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.
Tom Robbins
Image
Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.
Tom Robbins
Image
I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.
Tom Robbins
Image
I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'
Tom Robbins
Image
As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.
Tom Robbins
Image
Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!
Tom Robbins
Image
Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep.'
Tom Robbins
Image
Dreamily the Princess stood up. I'm not sure if I can walk, she said. Then I'll carry you. Is that what love is? I no longer know what love is. A week ago I had a lot of ideas. What love is and how to make it stay. Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.
Tom Robbins
Image
Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.
Tom Robbins
Image
There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.
Tom Robbins
Image
Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy
Tom Robbins
Image
I don't want to give the impression that I hold daily conversations with my household appliances, although my toaster is as old as Drew Barrymore and almost as talented.
Tom Robbins
Image
My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that but refusing to let it rain on my parade. And I advocate this to other people.
Tom Robbins
Image
Dip a slice of bread in batter. That's September: yellow, gold, soft and sticky. Fry the bread. Now you have October: chewier, drier, streaked with browns. The day in question fell somewhere in the middle of the french toast process.
Tom Robbins
Image
Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.
Tom Robbins
Image
As a child, I was an imaginary playmate.
Tom Robbins
Image
The truth, from my perspective, is that the world, indeed, is ending - and is also being reborn. It's been doing that all day, every day, forever.
Tom Robbins