Kozy Kitchen and Home

This is a random collection of interesting quotes and thoughts that my father has collected over several years. It includes just about everything from philosophy, faith, ideology, and government, to general observations on life and humorous one-liners that he didn't want to forget. I hope you enjoy and perhaps glean something of value.

Where possible, we have endeavored to accurately source all quotations.

Food for Thought

  • A little brain candy – 5/7/26

    “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” Margaret Mead [1901-1978] American cultural anthropologist

  • Something new to chew on – 4/20/26

    “My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time of my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to always be ready, no matter when it may overtake me.” Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson [1824-1863] Confederate General during the American Civil War

  • Today’s Brain Food – 4/14/26

    “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use.” Galileo Galilei [1564-1642] Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer Oft called “The father of modern science.”

  • A point to ponder – 4/10/26

    “I’m tired of pretending everything’s fine just so I can please everyone else.” Spencer Tracy [1900-1967] American actor from “Hollywood’s Golden Age”

  • Brain candy – 4/8/26

    “Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.” George Bernard Shaw [1856-1950] Irish playwright and political activist

  • Some intellectual nourishment – 4/7/26

    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” Aldous Huxley [1894-1963] English writer and philosopher

  • Something to chew on – 4/6/26

    “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle [384-322 BC] Greek Philosopher and Polymath Founder of the Lyceum

  • Some Easter nourishment for the soul – 4/5/26

    “You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” C. S. Lewis [1898-1963] British author and lay theologian

  • A Cerebral feast – 3/25/26

    “Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.” R. M. Williams [1908-2003] Australian bushman and entrepreneur

  • Brain candy – 3/24/26

    “A son is a son until he takes a wife. A daughter is a daughter for the rest of your life.” Old Irish Proverb