"The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust."

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Josh Billings

#Inspirational Quotes #Funny Quotes #Time Quotes

“The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection.”

Source : Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “The Age of Chivalry: Or Legends of King Arthur”, p.10, The Floating Press
“If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me.”
“The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and mothers?-Or do they wish us to return thanks to them for chaining and handcuffing us, branding us, cramming fire down our throats, or for keeping us in slavery, and beating us nearly or quite to death to make us work in ignorance and miseries, to support them and their families. They certainly think we are a gang of fools.”
“I've never been afraid to fail.”
“The best worship that we ever render to God is far from perfect. Our praises, how faint and feeble they are! Our prayers, how wandering, how wavering they are! When we get nearest to God, how far off we are! When we are most like Him, how greatly unlike Him we are!”
“I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.”
“I watched tons of archive footage of princess Margaret and listened to the music she loved; that was really immersive and brilliant.”
“I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.”

Source : Interview with Simon Dasher, pitchfork.com. April 30, 2006.

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