"Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next."

-- Edith Sitwell

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“There he is, tall, tanned, Italian, sophisticated. So what do you do?" I said, "Er, leap on him and snog him within an inch of his life? Taking care not to strangle myself on his false beard, or disturb his banana.”
“You have to think anyway, so why not think big?”
“By Thy power, let there be peace, O God!”

Source : "A Memory of Solferino". Book by Henry Dunant, p. 11, 1862.
“He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.”

Source : Attributed to Mickey Mantle in "Breakthrough Power for Golfers: A Daily Guide to an Extraordinary Life" by David Young (p. 189), 2011.
“First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.”
“The houses of this country (Maharashtra) are exceedingly strong and built solely of stone and iron. The hatchet-men of the Govt. in the course of my marching do not get sufficient strength and power (i.e. time) TO DESTROY AND RAZE THE TEMPLES OF THE INFIDELS that meet the eye on the way. You should appoint an orthodox inspector (darogha) who may afterwards DESTROY THEM AT LEISURE AND DIG UP THEIR FOUNDATIONS”
“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
“First Corinthians so clearly says that whether we eat or drink, do it all to the glory of God. It's not just self. Jesus said ... in Matthew 16, 'Deny yourself, take up your cross and follow Me.' The Osteens have just inverted that. They think it's not the denial of self, but the exaltation of self. They're not trying to pursue a cross; they're trying to pursue prosperity. And they're certainly not following the biblical Jesus. They're following whatever brings happiness and contentment.”

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