"Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold."

-- Rupert Brooke

#Lonely Quotes #Military Quotes #Blow Quotes

“We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.”
“There was a double-wide mobile home directly across from (New Prospect Baptist) church, .. The mobile home even had tie-down straps on it, but it was thrown clear across the highway. Part of the mobile home struck the church, and part of the frame ended up in the woods behind the church.”
“Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.”
“Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.”

Source : Christopher Isherwood (1987). “The Wishing Tree: Christopher Isherwood on Mystical Religion”, Vedanta Press
“When I see a woman who is all gaunt and emaciated, I don't think she's beautiful. She reminds me of a Chihuahua that's freezing and shaking.”
“The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.”
“You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.”
“I have never been able to understand the compelling phrase, 'keeping up with the Joneses.' It does not matter very much whether I keep up with Tom Jones or anybody else; what is important is to keep up with myself by making my today a little better than my yesterday.”

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