"A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins."

-- Laurie Colwin

#Summer Quotes #July Quotes #Violin Quotes

“I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ruth Rendell from Aug 19, 2011
“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”
“Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries. In the United States, the subtle spell of opium has been broken by restrictive legislation; the grip of the rum demon has been loosened by the Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution, but the tobacco habit still maintains its strangle-hold and more than one hundred million victims of tobaccoism daily burn incense to the smoke god.”

Source : John Harvey Kellogg (1922). “Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,”
“The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.”
“I think every person should be able to enjoy life. Try to decide what you most enjoy doing, and then look around to see if there is a job for which you could prepare yourself that would enable you to continue having this sort of joy.”
“The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.”
“I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.”
“Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]”

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