"Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance."

-- Saadi

#Ignorance Quotes #Order Quotes #Over You Quotes

“there were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day.”
“The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.”

Source : Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.21, Sheba Blake Publishing
“We are not a nation, but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign states.”

Source : To Oliver Dyer, January 1, 1849.
“I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.”
“The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.”
“I didn't think it would be possible, but it appears Isiah Thomas is a worse general manager than coach.....”
“A family is not built just by marrying a woman and producing children. Family is built with a timeless sacrifice which must represent purity, unity, standard of ethics, righteousness, grace, dignity, divinity and principles.”
“I was never pushed into the business. I wanted to play the guitar. When my dad found out I could play pretty good he took me into the studio one day. I did my first session for his label. We did quite a few sessions up there.”

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