"Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms."

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Source : John Millington Synge (1999). “The Aran Islands”, p.18, Northwestern University Press

John Millington Synge

#Mean Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“But the truth of the matter is, to live a good life, as a good person, it doesn't matter how you got there. It just matters that you do.”
“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”
“Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.”
“Whatever we really are, that let us be, in all fearlessness. Whatever we are not, that let us cease striving to be.”

Source : Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (1803). “What is Worth While?”, p.8
“The only way the band could make any money was by going on tour. But going on tour meant we had to get time off from our jobs, and we couldn't get enough time off to make enough money from touring to survive, so the only way to try was to quit our jobs. None of us had a job that was so wonderful that we were just dying to keep it.”
“There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.”
“Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.”
“Ain't all buttons and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say. I do. But I like to hear you say it. Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.”

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