"There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee; He worked and sang, from morn to night; No lark so blithe as he. And this the burden of his song, Forever used to be, "I care for nobody, not I, If no one cares for me."

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Source : Love in aVillage act 1, sc. 2 (1762)

Isaac Bickerstaffe

#Song Quotes #Night Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?”
“Besides, do you think you would have come if Iâ€™d just popped into your tattoo shop one night around closing and said, â€˜Hello, Iâ€™m the Prince of Darkness. Think you could help me out with a little war next Tuesday, say, sixish?”
“A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it.”
“One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.”
“travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.”

Source : Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose.”
“Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.”

Source : Philip Massinger, William Gifford (1813). “Plays: The maid of honour. The picture. The Emperor of the East. The fatal dowry. A new way to pay old debts”, p.62
“perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout no, and ask questions, defend the few, attack cruelty and proclaim the rights and dignity of man. ... America is going to look very strange to Americans and they will not be at home here, for the air will slowly become unbreathable to all forms of life except sheep.”

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