"Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?"

-- C. S. Lewis

#Hurt Quotes #Government Quotes #Shoes Quotes

“I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.”
“For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it felt like it was visiting me. I knew it wouldnâ€™t last for very long and Iâ€™d be sad again and then it would be worse because itâ€™s one thing to be sad and itâ€™s another thing to be sad once youâ€™ve been happy. Being sad after youâ€™ve been happy is the worst thing in the world.”

Source : Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013). “Last Night I Sang to the Monster”, p.195, Cinco Puntos Press
“The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.”
“I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.”
“I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!”
“Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.”

Source : Susan Dunlap (2012). “The Bohemian Connection”, p.7, Open Road Media
“I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.”
“I don't know if for sure in absolute terms if Jim Flaherty is the best Finance Minster in the world, but I am sure that he is the best Finance Minster per inch in the world.”

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