"One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear."

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Source : 'By the Way' (1931) p. 282

J. B. Morton

#Wife Quotes #Trying Quotes #Ears Quotes

“Chemistry is all about getting lucky...”
“Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.”
“You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty.”
“Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.”
“The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.”
“It's wrong to criticize leaders of the church, even if the criticism is true.”
“It is not enough to say we are Christians. We must live the faith, not only with our words, but with our actions.”
“Books arenâ€™t just my defenses, the sandbags I use to fortify my position; they are also the building blocks of my soul, and I am the sum of all I read.”

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