"For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents."

-- James Herriot

#Lunch Quotes #Years Quotes #Wife Quotes

“Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.”
“There is no lock strong enough nor wall thick enough to keep Death out," he murmured, his lips close to my ear so that I could feel the puff of his breath against my skin. The ends of a couple of his braids had found their way under the collar of my flannel night-shirt and tickled the base of my neck. "Are you speaking literally or metaphorically?”

Source : Jenna Black (2016). “Descendant: The Complete Nikki Glass Series”, p.122, Simon and Schuster
“I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous.”
“We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth. If we want to earn more in reality, we have to upgrade our self-concept.”
“In the papers this morning: 'Police closing in on Ian Holloway.' Sorry, it's 'Palace closing in on Ian Holloway.'”
“I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.”
“Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.”
“When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.”

Source : Herbert Spencer (1873). “The Study of Sociology”, p.242

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