"There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one."

-- Charles Dudley Warner

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Dinner Quotes

“There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.”
“My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.”
“What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children's school reports. This is particularly true for primary schools. Parents wanted to know much more than just how their children were doing academically.”
“The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.”
“I write constantly, but only in my journals. I have three of them: one for travel, one for home, and one I write in before bed. But the last thing I want is other people reading it... What's really fun is reading your journal, like a year later...”
“I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.”
“Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul.”
“In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running headlong into a disaster, like a pandemic or famine. Sometimes we get so frustrated with the slowness of human political processes that we wish a giant flaming rock would solve the problem for us.”

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