"Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools."

-- John Greenleaf Whittier

#School Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Doctors Quotes

“I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.”

Source : Pete McCarthy (2014). “McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland”, p.96, Macmillan
“The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.”
“To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand?”
“Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.”
“It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master”

Source : Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.198, Simon and Schuster
“Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.”
“In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.”
“We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of heretics, and from men who -in our eyes- just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to make an apology. It appears I must apologize for being male, white, and European.”

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