"What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare."

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Source : Songs of Joy (1911) "Leisure"

W. H. Davies

#Life Quotes #Humor Quotes #Care Quotes

“When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.”
“But Medicine is a demonstrative Science, and all its processes should be proved by established principles, and be based on positive inductions. That the proceedings of Medicine are not of this character, in to be attributed to the manner of its cultivation, and not to the nature of the Science itself.”
“War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.”
“If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.”
“Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is a feeling of belonging to the sky, of owning and being owned - if only for a moment - by the air I breathe. It is akin to the well known claim of the swallow: each bird staking out his personal bug-strewn slice of heaven, his inviolate property of the blue.”

Source : Guy Murchie (2016). “Song of the Sky”, p.299, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress”

Source : Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.18, Verso
“Caroline Trent hadn't meant to shoot Percival Prewitt, but she had, and now he was dead. Or at least she thought he was dead.”
“I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.”

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