"Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?"

-- Alexander Pope

#Father Quotes #Beer Quotes #Soul Quotes

“What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.”
“Designers send me clothes I wouldn't feel comfortable wearing.”
“Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level.”

Source : Interview with Jin Robinson, www.ign.com. March 27, 2006.
“Speaking of prostitutes, big oil's top call girl Sen Inhofe wants to kill fuel economy backed by automakers, small biz, enviros, & consumers”
“The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.”

Source : Sir Edmund Hillary (2013). “High Adventure: Our Ascent of the Everest”, p.6, Roli Books Private Limited
“Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.”

Source : Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.47, A&C Black
“Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.”
“Libraries are our friends.”

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