"This saying is both true and terse: There's nothing bad but might be worse."

-- Thornton Burgess

“The arrival of Ade Akinbiyi gave everyone a lift. He's a natural born goalscorer.”
“Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and cruelty, and suffering, and pain, and sobbing, and derision; the heart-rending and spasmodic laughter of the insane or condemned.”

Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1911). “In Desert and Wilderness”, p.148, Jester House Publishing
“If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.”
“The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.”
“Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.”
“This is one big problem with working remotely: no one believes you have a job at all.”
“But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or George Washington go? Did George Washington go to college? This idea which we now have that people ought to have these credentials is really ridiculous. Where did Homer go to college?”
“Fate is an obligation I don't understand--the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine.”

Source : Andrew X. Pham (2010). “Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam”, p.135, Macmillan

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