Quotes
Authors
J. P. Donleavy

"Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have become an out of control concussion match with opponents catapulting croutons and petits pois across the mahogany, don't fight it, go with it. And when you have the desire to quell the uprising approach the original perpetrator from behind. There, slowly crown her with the contents of the fresh fruit salad bowl. But be warned. Although this immobilizes and rivits everyone's attention it also gives them new ideas."

-- J. P. Donleavy

#Couple Quotes #Party Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Why have you not broken from the pack? You're playing it safe. Safe aint gonna get you ***** in this world”
“Our educational system just doesn't work as well as it should any more. 70% of people are never going to go to college, and we don't give them the vocational or occupational training they need before we throw them into a work force where too often they find they don't fit. The 30% that do go to college find themselves graduating with debts that may cripple them for years.”

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“When i was 12 all of my friends had girlfriends and i didn't, i felt lonely so i asked my mom to date me.”
“Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.”
“To break a Navy Seal, you have to kill us. That's why we can make it into our training. That's why we can call ourselves Seals because the only way your gonna break us is to kill us.”
“I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.”
“I grew up on the beach and played side-out scoring all my life, but rally scoring is better for our sport. There is pressure on every play. You can't make a mistake, but that also means your opponent can't make a mistake. It makes the matches more exciting to watch.”
“A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.”

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