"Truth is tarter than taradiddles; and nothing is tarter, terser, than truth on the track of tired trash in a trance."

-- Frederick Rolfe

#Tired Quotes #Track Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“I often used to think myself in the case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if some unheard-of blessing was to crown his success, finds at last all he has got by his labor is a stinking nauseous animal. But my condition was yet worse than his; for he leaves the loathsome wretch to be torn by his hounds, whilst I was obliged to fondle mine, and meanly pretend him to be the object of my love.”
“Good Will is the mightiest practical force in the universe.”

Source : "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.
“The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all it oceans. It killed 50 million human beings, left hundreds of millions of others wounded in mind or body and materially devastated much of the heartland of civilization.”
“Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need & more to retain their possessions & to help them to accumulate still more. Morals is the butter for those who have no bread.”
“I didn't have a very religious family.”
“My No. 1 hobby and interest is being a mom. It's something that makes me passionate, you know?”
“All the fun is in how you say a thing.”
“It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.”

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