"We risk life and limb and my princely good looks for a spoonful of sweet sock?"

-- J.V. Hart

#Sweet Quotes #Risk Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.”
“A few days before the [Mr. America] contest we heard rumors about a man who had throngs of people following him along the Lake Michigan Beach front, and we couldn't imagine who could draw crowds by merely walking along the beach!”
“the streams buck like rams in a tent / whips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combed /shadows of the shepherds. /black eggs and fools' bells fall from the trees. / thunder drums and kettledrums beat upon the ears of the donkeys. / wings brush against flowers. / fountains spring up in the eyes of the wild boar.”
“If you think you can do two full-time jobs, people will expect you to do three.”

Source : Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.141, Penguin
“First know yourself, then know others.”
“Just as the children of Israel were directed by God to depart from the land of their oppression with its tyrannical monarch, cross a great sea, and establish a new nation, so, too, the children of Great Britain were led by God to leave the land of their religious oppression, cross a great ocean, inhabit a promised land, and, eventually, resist a "tyrannical" George III and create a new nation in "God's American Israel."”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“Why should I put a bunch of Cadillacs on the ice, when I can sell out with a bunch of volkswagens”
“Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.”

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