"Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication"

-- Groucho Marx

#Funny Quotes #Witty Quotes #Communication Quotes

“Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.”
“To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.”
“Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.”
“A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.”

Source : George Oppen, Michael Davidson (2002). “New Collected Poems”, p.357, New Directions Publishing
“I can't remember a time where I really battled with my body, but I can remember being asked to lose weight and battling with the advice. It hurt me. Especially as my baby fat naturally melted away as I got older.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Celebration of the Human Voice--- When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice. When denied a mouth, it speaks with the hands or the eyes, or the pores, or anything at all. Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others.”
“There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.”
“It's when you are down that you learn about your faults.”

Source : Claude McKay (1973). “The passion of Claude McKay: selected poetry and prose, 1912-1948”, Schocken

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