"Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase."

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Source : George Farquhar, George Daniel (1828*). “The Beaux' Stratagem: A Comedy in Five Acts”, p.20

George Farquhar

#Men Quotes #Hands Quotes #Fool Quotes

“For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.”
“In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.”
“There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.”
“Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.”
“Happiness is not a destination. It is a mood, it is not permanent. It comes and goes and if people thought that way then maybe people would find happiness more often.”
“Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.”
“You can make a good show, but you still need some magical alchemy to get people to watch.”
“At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.”

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