"When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality."

-- Al Capone

#Drinking Quotes #Hospitality Quotes #Silver Quotes

“All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.”
“We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.”
“A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of; it heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades in paintings, it raises and rounds every figure and makes the colors more beautiful, though not so glar ...”
“Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do. Tell us that at the end of the day there will at least be one redeeming card of our very own. Lord, if it is not too much to ask, send us to bed with a few shreds of self-respect upon which we can congratulate ourselves. But whatever you do, do not preach grace. Give us something to do, anything; but spare us the indignity of this indiscriminate acceptance.”
“To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.”
“Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.”
“Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural order, but it does not destroy it.”
“Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.”

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