"For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all."

-- James A. Garfield

#Inspirational Life Quotes #Men Quotes #Honor Quotes

“If you're gay, you're gay. It's my Dennis Miller theory of homosexuality shot through the movie "Boy and the Dolphin." If you're a 12-year-old boy and you're watching the movie "Boy and a Dolphin" and a 27-year-old Sofia Loren crawls up out of the Aegean Sea after sponge diving, she's standing there in the deck of the boat in a see-through gauze top, rivulets of water dripping off her torso onto the deck of the boat. If you're a 12-year-old boy and you're watching that and you still want to make it with the captain of the boat, you're gay. You can't fight that. So it is what it is.”
“Antiques Roadshow' is my favorite show. Every Monday night I have one hour of appointment television. I get the popcorn out and tell my husband, 'Don't bother me.”
“The soul aspiring pants its source to mount,As streams meander level with their fount.”

Source : Robert Montgomery (1841). “The Omnipresence of the Deity: With Other Poems”, p.42
“There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.”

Source : Northrop Frye (2014). “The Northrop Frye Quote Book”, p.195, Dundurn
“There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong.”
“Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.”
“Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years.”
“Some people come into our lives, leave footprints in our hearts and minds and we are never the same again.”

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