"Television is like a great monster, eating your gags as fast as you say them."

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Source : "Dodd's Bolton Bonus". www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk. February 15, 2007.

Ken Dodd

#Monsters Quotes #Television Quotes #Eating Quotes

“I buy thousands of books a year.”
“Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.”
“This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.”
“Being poor is a frame of mind.”
“Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.”
“It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,”
“Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.”
“We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.”

Source : Thucydides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)”, p.61, Delphi Classics

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