"At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing in particular, I perceived coming towards me, a tall, beardless, fair-haired young fellow, wearing a German cap and gold-rimmed spectacles."

-- Edmond Francois Valentin About

#Morning Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.”
“The entire United States is within range of our nuclear weapons, and a nuclear button is always on my desk. This is reality, not a threat.”
“La veÂ riteÂ , comme la lumie'Â re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau creÂ puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.”
“Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.”
“When you beat England at Twickenham you don't feel the need to make changes to a winning side, but there are areas we think we can improve”
“There are no inevitabilities in history”

Source : Paul Johnson (1983). “Modern times: the world from the twenties to the eighties”, HarperCollins Publishers
“One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.”
“Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.”

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