"There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust."

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Source : John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.72, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

John Armstrong

#Boards Quotes #Way Quotes #Waste Quotes

“Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.”
“Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.”
“I love swimming, swimming's my passion and I hope I swim until the last day of my life, so I really, really do enjoy swimming, but swimming for me is simply a way of carrying a message.”
“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.”
“I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all except by some wandering deer. It is a river who wields the brush and it is the same river who before I can bring my friends to view his work erases it forever from human view. After that it exists only in my mind's eye.”
“It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.”

Source : 1979 TheMyth Makers,'Pasternak'.
“There are times you don't belong and you think you're going to kill yourself. Once I went to a hotel. Later that night I made a plan...”
“Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.”

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