"It is impossible to reign innocently."

-- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

#Power Quotes #Reign Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“I was born in the country of Hogg and Scott between the Yarrow and the Tweed, in the year 1864.”
“Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.”

Source : Simon Raven (1962). “The Decline of the Gentleman”
“My caddy today was a Scot and he told me that he was cheering for Australia, which I thought was a bit harsh. But generally I've been amazed at how many people have come up to me here in Scotland and said: 'I've never really watched cricket before, but I was hooked all summer.' It's great.”
“When you're in my house you shall do as I do and believe who I believe in. So Bart butter your bacon.”
“From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time East and west of the Rio Grande. Well, he started with a bank in Colorado In the pocket of his vest a Colt he hid. And his age and his size took the teller by surprise, And the word spread of Billy the Kid.”
“Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.”
“All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
“I only take vitamin B complex. Before World War II, I used to take ionized yeast, because in the pre-war era we never heard about vitamins.”

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