"The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever."

-- Guy de Maupassant

#Yellow Quotes #White Quotes #Three Quotes

“Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the British lost in the whole war.”
“You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.”
“Sleep in peace, and wake in joy.”

Source : Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.321
“Goodbye to the sun that shines for me no longer;”
“Success is about taking advantage of opportunity.”
“Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.”

Source : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.63, The Floating Press
“If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success.”
“Nothing can prevent the united consumer from working for themselves with the aid of mutual credit, from building factories, workshops, houses for themselves, from acquiring land; nothing â€” if only they have a will and begin.”

Source : Gustav Landauer (2010). “Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader”, p.4, PM Press

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