"now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Wine Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Sound Quotes

“My body is an instrument for me to use.”
“And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“In Matthew, Jesus declares, â€œWhoever is not with me is against me.â€ In Mark, he says,â€œWhoever is not against us is for us.â€ Did he say both things? Could he mean both things? How can both be true at once? Or is it possible that one of the Gospel writers got things switched around?”
“We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.”
“The star of Bethlehem was a star of hope that led the wise men to the fulfillment of their expectations, the success of their expedition. Nothing in this world is more fundamental for success in life than hope, and this star pointed to our only source for true hope: Jesus Christ.”
“That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.”

Source : "It was the best party... ever". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2002.
“Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is with my kids[...]The bundle of bright yellow warming my core, formerly frozen and uninhabitable[...]They got yellow from me, and I felt yellow giving it to them and it was all good[...]So, why am I leaving my show? It took my yellow. I wanted it back. Without it I can't live. The gray kills me.”
“It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.”

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