"Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer."

-- Brand Blanshard

#Lying Quotes #Errors Quotes #Dust Quotes

“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”
“Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.”
“I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks”
“Over the last few years, my comfort level with how I look has improved. My age has helped. You get used to yourself and accept yourself.”
“The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country.”
“The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.”
“A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on this or that side, for this or that client: a mere legal beast of prey. Fortunately for himself and for the world he took a higher view of his life-work: his determination clearly was to make himself a thoroughly equipped jurist, and then, as he rose more and more in his profession, to use his powers for the good of his country and of mankind.”

Source : "Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason". Book by Andrew Dickson White, p. 59, 1915.
“Im the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. Thats the way my mother raised me.”

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