"I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back."

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Source : Edward Lear (2001). “The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense”, Lane, Allen

Edward Lear

#Oysters Quotes #Said Quotes

“Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power whirls. Birds make their nest in circles... The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.”
“Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help...”
“Everything that seemingly happens externally is occurring in order to trigger something within us, to expand us and take us back to who we truly are.”

Source : Anita Moorjani (2012). “Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing”, p.144, Hay House, Inc
“Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a hurried study of modern openings, and watching one or two tournaments, the champions of the last century, and indeed the century before that, would very quickly occupy the same place that they occupied when they were alive.”
“Back in the 40s and early 50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.”
“In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path.”

Source : Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”
“Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.”
“... talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife.”

Source : Herman Wouk (1986). “Winds of War”, Pocket

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