"The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting"

-- John Monks

#Country Quotes #Politics Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”
“We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.”
“Good-bye... why am I hemorrhaging ?”
“I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I'm in the stirrups or something.”
“I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time.”
“If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.”
“I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.”
“Growing the mycelium of the Chaga mushroom under laboratory conditions provides an ecologically friendly alternative supply of this unique medicinal mushroom.”

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