"Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies."

-- Joseph Addison

#Drinking Quotes #Glasses Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible.”
“I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.”
“The Chief Justice's ... main point seemed to be that the references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance aren't really religious and therefore are not that important - something I would think would offend Christians who think it should stay because it is religious and does matter. Too many Christians appear to be desperate to shore up their failing confidence in their own religious beliefs by having the government officially endorse those beliefs.”
“From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship.”

Source : "PREGNANT FOUNDER'S RESPONSE TO VC: 'I've Never Heard Someone Say 'An Expectant Father/CEO Will Fail''" by lyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2011.
“I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.”
“I despise shows that present friendship where you're always there for each other and really strong because I don't know anyone like that. I mean, I've got great friends, but I can go months without seeing them because I think, 'I just can't deal with having to give you anything.”
“And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal to remember anything good, the determination to ensure - if anyone falls into the mistake of making it clear they actually like you - that the next time round they change their opinion pronto. Emotional self-cannibalism, in other words, like those tessellated pictures of a person grappling with a mirror image of himself.”

Source : Alexander Masters (2006). “Stuart: A Life Backwards”, Random House Digital, Inc.
“I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.”

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