"It's frightening to admit but if I lay off the lin it'a amazing how my love handles deplete. But is life without gin worth living?"

-- Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

#Gin Quotes #Frightening Quotes #Handle Quotes

“Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.”
“It's really nice that the truth can finally come out.”
“As the children were sitting there eating pears, a girl came walking along the road from town. When she saw the children she stopped and asked, "Have you seen my papa go by?" "M-m-m," said Pippi. "How did he look? Did he have blue eyes?" "Yes," said the girl. "Medium large, not too tall and not too short?" "Yes," said the girl. "Black hat and black shoes?" "Yes, exactly," said the girl eagerly. "No, that one we haven't seen," said Pippi decidedly.”
“I always felt I needed to teach to survive.”
“You ever taste some damn chicken so horrible, that you wished the chicken would show up at your house and show your lady how to cook him?”
“Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.”
“The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.”
“Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.”

Source : Seamus Heaney (2009). “Beowulf”, p.30, Faber & Faber

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