"I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate."

-- James Gates Percival

#Father Quotes #Mean Quotes #Fool Quotes

“When I'm in love, I wake up happy.”
“If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.”
“If there is another me inside of me Then I hope that he's a better person than I am”
“This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine.”
“Mummy always wanted the five children, and she knew she couldn't look after them all because she was this absolutely glorious woman who loved going to parties and going to the races, and she just didn't have time.”

Source : "The gentle art of showing off". Interview With Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2005.
“I find I have to be the sad clown: laughing on the outside, crying on the inside.”

Source : "The Sopranos: Pilot". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1999.
“When a man sought knowledge, it would not be long before it could be seen in his humbleness, his sight, upon his tongue and his hands, in his prayer, in his speech and in his disinterest (zuhd) in worldly allurements. And a man would acquire a portion of knowledge and put it into practice, and it would be better for him than the world and all it contains - if he owned it he would give it in exchange for the hereafter.”

Source : Quoted in Ibn Al-Mubârak, Al-Zuhd wa Al-Raqâ`iq Vol.1 p. 156,
“From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.”

Source : Joseph Priestley (1782). “An History of the Corruption of Christianity”, p.442

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