"Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?"

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Source : Robert Peel, W.T. Haly (1850). “The Opinions of Sir Robert Peel, Expressed in Parliament and in Public”, p.145

Robert Peel

#Fishing Quotes #Pool Quotes #Empty Quotes

“True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.”
“I am inclined to put the zenith of success-the time of most consideration and public labor -as somewhere in the sixties, say from sixty-five to seventy.”
“The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every civilization. When a civilization becomes so standardized that the individual can no longer make an imprint on it, then that civilization is dying. The mass mind has taken over and another set of national glories is heading for history's scrap heap.”
“Rich people manage their money well. Poor people mismanage their money well.”
“Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living. If Ladakh now succeeds in creating for itself a future which retains the foundations of its traditional past, it will be an inspiring example of how all the various elements of an ecological future fit together.”
“The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.”
“If you *think* you think outside the box, you're trapped in one.”

Source : Song: Excuse You, Album: Paullelujah!
“I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.”

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