"The holly green, the ivy green The prettiest picture you've ever seen Is Christmas in Killarney With all of the folks at home."

-- John Redmond

#Christmas Quotes #Home Quotes #Ivy Quotes

“Life choices and projects and photo shoots, I can't base them on anybody else but myself. I've done things where I'm like, "Do I want my dad to see this? I don't know!" But the best lesson I can teach my sisters, or any younger women, is "Do what YOU do. Don't follow me, follow you."”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“The borrower is slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.”
“The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without benefit of roads, in company with kilted men armed to the teeth, and sharing a horse with a wounded man. At least we were not set upon by highwaymen, we encountered no wild beasts, and it didn't rain. By the standards I was becoming used to, it was quite dull.”
“Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.”

Source : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books
“Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.”
“I've always said I'm going to get married only once.”
“Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.”
“...The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!”

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