"I never rode a bull - I'm not that stupid."

-- James Caan

#Stupid Quotes #Bulls Quotes

“My father was always anxious to give pleasure to his children. Accordingly, he took me one day, as a special treat, to the top of the grand old tower, to see the chimes played.”

Source : James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.57, BoD – Books on Demand
“Examples of exaggeration can be found in almost any advertising medium. The use of the superlative is altogether too prevalent. 'The finest,' 'the best,' 'the greatest,' 'the purest,' 'the most economical,' and so on ad infinitum, are hurled at the public everywhere. Surely not all products of the same class can be the best or the finest.”

Source : Daniel Starch (1914). “Advertising: Its Principles, Practice, and Technique”
“Destiny is not preordained. Destiny is ordained totally by you. Every single moment of your NOW existence is the result of your previous thought. The idea that everything is already laid out for you in advance is a hallucination. You can and do manifest your own destiny.”
“A room without books is like a life without meaning.”
“Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.”
“I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.”
“When I was younger, I used to say, One day I'll be famous.”
“Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like the present,-considerably more scientific than poetical,-science substitutes for the smaller poetry of fiction, the great poetry of truth.”

Source : Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1859). “Sketch book of popular geology: Popular geology: A series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh”, p.123

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