"The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 167, 1895.

Thomas Adams

#Men Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Camels Quotes

“Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'”

Source : 1977 In Woman magazine, 9 Apr.
“A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.”
“In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them.”
“Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.”
“Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.”
“Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?”
“Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.”

Source : Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1837). “Ion: A Tragedy in Five Acts”, p.16
“I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.”

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