"Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man."

-- Matthew Arnold

#Men Quotes #Saint Quotes

“Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.”
“Look at Jewish history. Unrelieved lamenting would be intolerable. So for every ten Jews beating their breasts, God designated one to be crazy and amuse the breast-beaters. By the time I was five I knew I was that one.”
“Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.”
“I'm surprised I wasn't sent to therapy in the childhood to be honest. I think my parents must have gotten a kick out of it.”
“November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.”
“He whipped the chair around and actually split one of the things in half with the impact, spilling the spray of blood that was reflective, like mercury. John bellowed, "Anyone else want to donate blood to chair-ity?" He ducked into the the door and bashed one monster right in the wig, screaming, "There's some dessert! With a chair-y on top!”
“Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.”
“So let us not worry, and look instead as it has been taught us to do, as the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, keeping complete faith in Our Father's goodness.”

Source : Franz Liszt, Marie Sayn-Wittgenstein Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (Prinzessin zu) (1953). “The letters of Franz Liszt to Marie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein”

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