"Good-humor only teaches charms to last, Still makes new conquests and maintains the past."

-- Alexander Pope

#Character Quotes #Past Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“Nobody wants to hear how I think I've been mistreated, or how I think my punishment should be lifted, or tweaked, or reduced. Nobody wants to hear me say that, nobody cares what I think about this. I get it.”
“I love a sense of humor, I love intelligence, I love specificity, I love surprises. I'm inspired to get out of bed in the morning and fill my day with good things.”

Source : "Interview: Michael Stuhlbarg of ‘A Serious Man’". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.com. October 8, 2009.
“The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts.”
“The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.”
“I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more when he laughs, it adds some thing to his fragment of life.”
“We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.”

Source : John Lancaster Spalding (1899). “Thoughts and Theories of Life and Education”
“You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.”
“If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.”

Source : Lincoln Steffens (2012). “The Shame of the Cities”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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