"What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen."

-- Evelyn Waugh

#Men Quotes #Youth Quotes #Fit Quotes

“I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.”
“My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.”
“Affirm for yourself that you are a success. Affirm that you are successful in getting rid of your clutter. If you are having a hard time getting started, be grateful that you are such a successful clutterer. Who else could have amassed such a collection of stuff?”
“To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!”

Source : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.184
“Doubt remains a luxury I won't do without.”

Source : Eleanor Clark (1978). “Eyes, etc: a memoir”, HarperCollins
“I also believe that at a critical point (more than six people?), that collective wisdom turns into group think.”
“I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.”
“People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from the one to the other ... On what grounds, then, do people form hypotheses about the relative merits of state and state of nature? ... My contention here is that preferences for political arrangements of society are to a large extent produced by these very arrangements, so that political institutions are either addictive like some drugs, or allergy-inducing like some others, or both, for they may be one thing for some people and the other for others.”

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