"The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind."

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Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1873). “The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe”, p.334

John Godfrey Saxe

#Wise Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Light Quotes

“Life without music is unthinkable.”
“Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.”
“Being "America's Sweetheart", that label gets put on a lot of people. I don't pay that much attention. And I'm not trying to shake anything. I'm just following my instincts and doing work that is coming to me and I'm just grateful for it.”
“The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.”
“Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.”

Source : 'Melincourt' (1817)
“American Journalism is deadâ€¦ They have behaved like hockey goalies in front of Barack Obamaâ€™s net.”
“From the very beginningâ€” from the first moment, I may almost sayâ€” of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.”

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