"Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score."

-- Alexander Pope

#Memories Quotes #Past Quotes #Men Quotes

“I love you. I'll never leave you and I swear to you sweetheart that you will never be alone.”
“Love: It is like a cigar. If it goes out, you can light it again but it never tastes quite the same.”
“A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law...That portion of the sovereignty, to which each individual is entitled, can never be too highly prized. It is that for which we have fought and bled...”
“A band is like a family. There's love and hate.”
“For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.”

Source : Alexandre Dumas (2010). “The Count of Monte Cristo Volume 3âle Comte de Monte-Cristo Tome 3: English-French Parallel Text Edition in Six Volumes”, p.166, Lulu.com
“I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.”
“You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It's capable of doing both.”
“[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little like Groucho Marx. He was as animated as a jazz-band leader, which he turned out to be. He showed us his gouaches, which were as musical as Kandinsky's, as delicate as Klee's, and as gay as MirÃ³'s.”

Source : Peggy Guggenheim (2016). “Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim”, p.164, Ravenio Books

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