"Let me see you do the 'rag time dance'... Turn left and do the 'Cake walk prance'... Turn the other way and do the 'Slow drag'... Now take your lady to the world's fair (...) And do the 'rag time dance.'"

-- Scott Joplin

#Cake Quotes #World Quotes #Way Quotes

“If you focus on only the seeds in a watermelon, you missed the sweetness of the meat”

Source : Wally Amos, Stu Glauberman (2011). “Watermelon Magic: Seeds Of Wisdom, Slices Of Life”, p.54, Simon and Schuster
“If one says 'Red' â€“ the name of color â€“ and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.”
“My husband is the mayor. He has a lot of advisors. He has many advisors. Trust me. I'm not always the last one to state my opinion to him. And he does not always take my opinion. I think it's totally fair for any - in any couple, we just assume that people are speaking to their spouse. This is no different. In this day and age, I think we're going to see more couples like us. You know, couples who work together. I'm a volunteer, but I take this work very seriously and I want to help my husband in any way I can.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
“People tend to wear a suit without a tie but it's a strange look, there's something missing. Either you wear a blazer and slacks, or you wear a suit and tie. It is challenging today to dress in an appropriate way.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.”
“When I heard, Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, I thought, Did he fall or was he pushed?”

Source : "Crime novelist P.D. James dies at 94" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. November 27, 2014.
“A warrior of the light...never confuses tension with anxiety.”
“As has been stated, the purpose of money is to split barter into two parts so that the seller is free to find his source of supply later and elsewhere. This is the sole purpose of money. Any effort to use money to serve another purpose is perversive; and this statement condemns the entire managed money philosophy.”

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