"If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning."

-- William Blake

#Foxes Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Lions Quotes

“I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.”
“All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.”
“Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.”
“In this fight I want to show people who are in poverty, downtrodden or denied that you can succeed. I want my performance to be an inspiration to people. You have to stay in the moment and keep moving ahead. I just want to show everyone that you can find answers to your problems and afflictions with hard work and perseverance.”
“A pun is the lowest form of humorâ€”when you don't think of it first.”
“One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.”

Source : George Leigh Mallory's letter to his wife Ruth Mallory (1921) as quoted in Walt Unsworth "Everest: The Mountaineering History‎" (p. 47), 1981.
“Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, don't be upset when others decide you're an asshole.”
“...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.”

Source : George Joseph Stigler, Paul Anthony Samuelson (1963). “A Dialogue on the Proper Economic Role of the State”

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