"Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunities of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it."

-- Joseph Addison

#Party Quotes #Character Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.”
“It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.”
“We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - Âwhich group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.”
“Meditation is the best means of elongating life”
“~My favorite thing about my son is that he comes home from school and the clothes go flying! Like, clothes off, right down to the undies.~”
“The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.”
“Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is suffering, which everybody practices, but strangely few of us grow graceful in.”

Source : Tony Hoagland (1998). “Donkey Gospel: Poems”, Graywolf Press
“I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.”

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