Pot Quotes

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot. (George Herbert)
I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was how to help the Cambodian people. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him. But China could. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me. (Interview Magazine 2000). View quote
Anthony Kiedis
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. View quote
Jimmy Carter
The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail. View quote
Wole Soyinka
Good wine needs no bush, And perhaps products that people really want need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not; Look at pot. View quote
Ogden Nash
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call ''literature'' is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche. View quote
Toni Morrison
Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time; he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking were making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really. View quote
Jack Osbourne
To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more. View quote
Ernest Istook
Obama was quite serious when he said he was going to change the world. And now he has a national crisis, a personal mandate, a pliant Congress, a desperate public -- and, at his disposal, the greatest pot of money in galactic history. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again. (Ramakrishna)
Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness. View quote
John Frusciante
So you play your albums and you smoke your pot And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot Oh, but still you're aching for the things you haven't got, What went wrong? And if you can't understand why your world is so dead And why you've got to keep in style and feed your head Well, you're twenty one and still you mother makes your bed And that's too long. View quote
Billy Joel
I had gotten up to two, maybe three, packs (of cigarettes) a day. And my lungs were bothering me and I'd had pneumonia two or three times. And I was also smoking pot, and I decided, well, one of them's got to go. And so I took a pack of Chesterfields and took all the Chesterfields out, rolled up 20 big fat ones and put it in there, and I haven't smoked a cigarette since then. View quote
Willie Nelson
Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need. View quote
Julia Child
To get wealth and security by guile Is like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay. View quote
Thiruvalluvar
We didn't have rehab back in the Seventies. Back in the Seventies, rehab meant you stopped doing coke, but you kept smoking pot and drinking for a couple more weeks. View quote
Denis Leary
Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech. View quote
Maynard James Keenan
Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards. View quote
Eric Holder
To a boiling pot flies come not. View quote
George Herbert
Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it? (Bill Hicks)
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. View quote
E. B. White
Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones. View quote
Francis Bacon
I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our Bartlett's. View quote
Rod Serling