"Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up."

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Source : Wendy Cope (2017). “Christmas Poems”, p.35, Faber & Faber

Wendy Cope

#Christmas Quotes #Men Quotes #Earth Quotes

“People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.”
“I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my own children trapped in a car that's sinking to the bottom of a lake and being impotent to save them'the black Americans have their own holocaust going on. You see the black man erasing black children from the landscape, you see black women desperately trying to get the black man's attention by wearing blonde hair and fake blue eyes, 500 years after he sold her and their children across the ocean.”
“A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.”
“Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.”
“The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked puntâ€”and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mistake-proof quarterback and you have this game won.”
“My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.”
“The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.”
“He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.”

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