"Drink promises you everything, but gives nothing ..."

-- Nancy Astor

#Drinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #Promise Quotes

“The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.”
“Go to bed before 8 p.m. Thieves generally break in between 12 and 2 a.m., so if you spend the evening in useless talk and go to bed late, you are likely to lose your valuables and your reputation as well. Save the firing and the light that will be wasted by staying up late and get up at four in the morning. Have a cold bath and say your prayers, and after you have dressed, give your orders for the day to your wife and children and retainers and so be ready to go on duty before 6 [a.m.]”
“If you work hard and you do your best, you can do anything.”
“There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. . . No man is so wise but that he may learn some wisdom from his past errors, either of thought or action, and no society has made such advances as to be capable of no improvement from the retrospect of its past folly and credulity.”

Source : Charles MacKay (2011). “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds”, p.534, BookBaby
“The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent stands behind the hierarchy of laws. In one situation, the population is regimented into acquiescence. In the other, the population voluntarily establishes a contract with Parliament. For this reason, one is called a regime and the other, a government. Martial law rests on the sanction of force and not on the sanction of law.”

Source : "If I am assassinated".
“As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people.”

Source : Song: Clementine, Album: More of Tom Lehrer

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