"Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work."

-- H. Allen Smith

#Mean Quotes #Moral Quotes #Manners Quotes

“Alcohol does kill brain cells, because you've lost it.”
“You will like her," he persisted. "Egad, she's after your own heart, maman! She shot me in the arm." "Voyons, do you think that is what I like?”
“A tobacco industry has been a fairly linear and predictable industry. You know what's going to happen every year. You know from time to time you are going to have a tax increase, you are going to have regulatory restriction, but, as it applies to everybody, I think we are doing very well. But now it's much more technology-driven. Competitors other than our traditional competitors can come in, whether legitimate or fly-by-night ones, and you have to anticipate all those things. The whole organization has to gear up to this new reality and these new competitive rules around it.”
“There is something to be said for the power of figureheads. After Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, a record number of countries posted female ambassadors to the U.S. - some of whom have dubbed this 'the Hillary effect.'”
“I know of no one who would be a good High Commissioner of Palestine except God.”
“Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.”
“When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?”
“Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.”

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