"Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions and friends. If our friends are badly chosen they will inevitably drag us down; if well they will raise us up."

-- Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury

#Wise Quotes #Real Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!'”
“Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist.”
“Journalism is literature in a hurry.”
“Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.”

Source : Selected Poems (1973), trans. by D. McDuff p. 129
“Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have an audience of thousands. That doesn't make them a journalist any more than my throwing an onion and a few carrots into a pot of boiling water makes me Julia Child.”

Source : "Finding the Voice of Truth Amid the Noise of Old and New Media" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.
“With my brains and your looks, we could go places.”

Source : "Fictional character: Frank Chambers". "The Postman Always Rings Twice", www.imdb.com. 1946.
“Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)”
“How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.”

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