"The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs."

-- Honore de Balzac

#Letting Go Quotes #Husband Quotes #Lying Quotes

“Disciples and devoteesâ€¦what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!”
“So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.”
“Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means.”
“If I can see it, it's a failure”
“I've always felt that acting is acting at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.”
“Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.”
“A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.”
“It comes to me every day of my life that a home spirit is being awakened amongst us, that as a nation we are beginning to realize how important it is to have homes of our own, homes that we like, that we have been instrumental in building, that we will want to have belong to our children.”

Source : Gustav Stickley (1912). “More Craftsman Homes”

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