"To defer anything to the Greek Calends is to defer it sine die. There were no calends in the Greek months. The Romans used to pay rents, taxes, bills, etc., on the calends, and to defer paying them to the â€œGreek Calendsâ€ was virtually to repudiate them. (See NEVER.)"

-- E. Cobham Brewer

#Greek Quotes #Pay Quotes #Bills Quotes

“The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.”
“In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.”

Source : Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books
“I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind”
“George Jones will always be one of the most amazing singers who ever lived.Â He was a true Country Music legend who made music very personal to the listener â€“ I think more than anyone else.Â He will be dearly missed, but always remembered.”
“I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination”
“I am not proposing to replace war with peace. I propose to replace war with a smarter fight. A fight using other instruments, more intelligent instruments to convince people not to use drugs.”
“I get turned on by the idea of an essence - finding the essence of the thing.”
“years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.”

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