"I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk."

-- Leonard Cohen

#Drunk Quotes #Junk Quotes #Bottles Quotes

“Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.”

Source : "This Tory bonfire of regulations lets the rich foul the poor with impunity" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2010.
“Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.”

Source : Sir William PETTY (1769). “Tracts chiefly relating to Ireland, etc”, p.23
“When life gives you lemons, make sure you know whose eyes you need to squeeze them in.”
“Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.”
“Not every effort at loving difficult people will have a positive ending... We don't love people in hopes of a happy ending. We love them because it's the right thing to do.”

Source : Doug McIntosh, Paula McIntosh (1999). “Love Full Circle: The Golden Rule”, Moody Pub
“What second love could she [Olympias] make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.”
“You start realizing that maybe you're the one night a month that people have out, and they don't need to hear your political views or how dark you can get. They just want to laugh for an hour and go home. Once I wrapped my head around that, my act evolved accordingly.”
“Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased”

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