"The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor-apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly-man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street."

-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

#Book Quotes #Men Quotes #Elderly Quotes

“I like whimsy and satire, and that's what Americans like so much about Brits. We bring subtlety and sense of humor that you sometimes lack. We have a very long history of importing Brits like Christopher Hitchens who are better at it than Americans are.”
“If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.”

Source : Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.14, Penguin
“Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.”
“I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.”

Source : Thabo Mbeki (1998). “Africa: the time has come : selected speeches”
“Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.”
“They pay you to pitch and that's what I'm going to do.”
“Robert Zubrinâ€™s masterful studyâ€¦makes for riveting reading. . a cautionary tale of what happens when powerful, unprincipled elites are not only alienated from the mass of their fellow men, but come to see them as a barrier to imagined social, evolutionary, or environmental progress.”
“I think people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born.”

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