"The passions are the only orators which always persuade."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Passion Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“It takes a long time to become young.”
“Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it; but when they begin to look around, and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand, at the end, like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings.”
“[O]nce you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." - The Skin Horse from The Velveteen Rabbit”
“The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.”

Source : George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation
“Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers.”
“I buy myself a gift every year, so this year I bought everything I wanted.”
“We will embrace you in uniform today, we will embrace you without uniform tomorrow.”
“As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!”

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