"It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears."

-- Plutarch

#Loss Quotes #Matter Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“I am so blessed. I've been way over-blessed. At 64 years old, I look forward to going to bed every night so I can wake up in the morning and see what blessing is going to come my way that day. Because you never, ever know what God's got in store for you.”
“Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.”
“I think, as Ive gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.”
“Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue”
“I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.”
“Iâ€™m particularly proud of anything the House and the Senate agree on,”
“The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.”
“We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.”

Source : Leo Deuel, Heinrich Schliemann (1977). “Memoirs of Heinrich Schliemann: a documentary portrait drawn from his autobiographical writings, letters, and excavation reports”, HarperCollins Publishers

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