"A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out."

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Laurence J. Peter

#Ruts Quotes #Ends Quotes #Graves Quotes

“This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.”

Source : 'The Scholar-Gipsy' (1853) l. 201
“Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?”
“Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building.”
“He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.”
“Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.”
“The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .”
“In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it's traditionally the least Spanish city, but you'd never know they had a monarchy, coming here as a tourist - as opposed to the U.K., where the Queen is probably the best-known animal, vegetable and/or mineral going when it comes to overseas visitors.”
“The idea behind doing comedies is that you go home a little happier.”

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