"An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike."

-- Spiro T. Agnew

#Men Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Parks Quotes

“It was probably easier in the old days when the bad guys rode into town wearing black capes or whatever bad guys wore and the milk cows were ownded by honest people. Right off the bat, you'd know who you were dealing with. Now everybody dresses alike.”
“Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.”
“That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.”
“Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.”

Source : Joseph Wood Krutch (1967). “And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & Machines”
“Well, I don't know that I'm OK any more than anybody else is OK but I've led at least a happy life and a very full one.”
“Baby, I have no idea how this will end. Maybe the equator will fall like a hula hoop from the earth's hips and our mouths will freeze mid-kiss on our 80th anniversary or maybe tomorrow my absolute insanity combined with the absolute obstacle course of your communication skills will leave us like a love letter in a landfill. But whatever, however, whenever this ends I want you to know that right now, I love you forever.”
“If there is a panacea, or cure-all to life, it is self love.”
“That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.”

Source : John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.569, Vintage

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