"Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been."

-- Jimmy Buffett

#Smile Quotes #Wrinkles Quotes

“When alchemists first learned how to distill spirits, they called it aqua vitae, the water of life, and far from considering it the work of the devil, they thought the discovery was divinely inspired.”

Source : "Good Spirits". Book by Gene Logsdon, 1999.
“Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.”
“Today you are standing in a position that would please the friend and would anger the enemy and all the infidels. You will be victorious against the enemies and you are causing them to suffer.”
“The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.”

Source : "On Medicine". Essay by Avicenna (circa 1020), as quoted in "The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East" edited by Charles F. Horne (Volume VI "Medieval Arabia", pp. 90-91), sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1917.
“I've just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: 'You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?' I tell them I wouldn't do it unless I understood and had an interest.”
“Monastic vows rest on the false assumption that there is a special calling, a vocation, to which superior Christians are invited to observe the counsels of perfection while ordinary Christians fulfill only the commands; but there simply is no special religious vocation since the call of God comes to each at the common tasks.”
“Don't ever sell mankind short by saying there's anything they can't do.”

Source : "The Lights in the Sky are Stars".
“The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at work.”

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