"If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards."

-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Air Quotes #House Quotes #Castles Quotes

“Time is the mother and mugger of us all.”

Source : Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1993). “The New Well-tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“... I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method...”
“Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.”
“A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon.”
“Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.”
“Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.”
“A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]”
“The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.”

Source : "An A-Z of cultural terms". The Guardian, June 3, 1992.

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