"Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life."

-- Katharine Whitehorn

#Smoking Quotes #Doe Quotes #Pounds Quotes

“There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.”
“This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"”
“An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.”
“We are our brothers keeper. Its going to be up to all of us.”
“But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.”

Source : "La Dorotea". Book by Lope de Vega, 1632.
“What appears to be the established order of present-day civilization is actually only the inert but spectacular momentum of a high velocity vehicle whose engine has already stopped functioning.”
“It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.”
“Don't wish today away. Don't waste it. Redeem one hour to be grateful. Let your thanksgiving rise above the din of disappointment - opportunities lost, mistakes made, the clamor of all that has not yet come.”

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