"Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me."

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Source : John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, Susanna Centlivre (1791). “British Theatre: Bold stroke for a wife”

John Vanbrugh

#Law Quotes #Fool Quotes

“You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise.”
“I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.”
“18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK".”

Source : "Joe Satriani: The Satch Tapes". Music, Video, 1993.
“I have two rules for living in the world. I never say anything negative about anyone, because that won't get you anywhere. And two, if people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.”
“The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.”
“Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.”
“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.”
“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”

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