"I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life."

-- Laurence Sterne

#Smile Quotes #Laughter Quotes #Men Quotes

“A stately pleasure-dome decree.”
“Never underestimate the incompetence of government.”
“If the fact that people make poor decisions is reason enough for the government to second-guess their decisions about dangerous activities such as smoking cigarettes and riding motorcycles, why on earth should the government let people make their own choices when it comes to such consequential matters as where to live, how much education to get, whom to marry, whether to have children, which job to take, or what religion to practice?”
“No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.”
“I have mostly been eating chicken wings. I only stick to things I can spell.”
“I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.”
“Sure, Iâ€™m sad, but Iâ€™m not looking to soothe that sadness by replacing it with a new relationship. Women are allowed to be sad, and theyâ€™re allowed to be single, and they donâ€™t need to hear that one day a man is going to make it all go away by telling her she is good enough again. Sheâ€™s good enough as she is.”
“Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.”

Source : Richard M. Reinsch, II, Orestes Augustus Brownson (2016). “Seeking the Truth: An Orestes Brownson Anthology”, p.171, CUA Press

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