"Being asked where in Greece he saw good men , he replied, "'Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."

-- Diogenes

#Boys Quotes #Men Quotes #Good Man Quotes

“On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on which the writer finds himself in lifelong struggle to join the two without sullying or smearing the clarities of either.”
“Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.”

Source : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “Molly Make-Believe”, p.7, The Floating Press
“We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years.”

Source : "19 Unforgettable Quotes From Retiring General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis" by Geoffrey Ingersoll and Paul Szoldra, www.businessinsider.com. January 23, 2013.
“I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.”
“Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness.”
“Education demands, then, only this: the utilization of the inner powers of the child for his own instruction.”
“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.”
“The true secret to seeking the unknown is in the looking, not the finding. The journey is what matters.”

Source : Josh Gates (2011). “Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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