"Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea."

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Nikos Kazantzakis

#Men Quotes #Sea Quotes #Dying Quotes

“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”

Source : Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1830). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: With an Essay on His Language and Versification, an Introductory Discourse, Notes, and a Glossary by Tho. Tyrwhitt”, p.94
“How can I call security a woman's primary fantasy if I am saying it is also her primary need? Because while her primary need is the security of a home and a family circle, her primary fantasy is that someone else will earn enough to pay for them. Hence the focus of 2 billion women on the latest royal wedding.”
“You really must stop acting Like a 20-year-old, gold plated In a midlife crisis You just graduated Happy 60th”
“Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about something like a bus crash in Bangladesh that has no effect on us at all? That can be nothing other than voyeurism.”
“You can't exercise your way out of a bad diet.”
“I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny.”
“In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough.”
“Let your voice be heard, whether or not it is to the taste of every jack-in-office who may be obstructing the traffic. By all means, render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's - but this does not necessarily include everything that he says is his.”

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