"From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame."

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Source : John Gay, O. F. Owen (1857). “The fables of John Gay illustrated”, p.202

John Gay

#Kings Quotes #Cobblers Quotes #Fame Quotes

“When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.”

Source : Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.6, Penguin UK
“Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well.”
“Caramels are only a fad. Chocolate is a permanent thing.”
“Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of the devil. All civilization aims at world improvement, at the gradual elimination of the curse; it is a process of evolution. It is like a man who is suffering from a terrible disease, and the physician who comes to help him gives him a salve to apply. He treats the skin symptoms but the source of the disease he never considers and never touches. Such is a boasted and progressive civilization. It is a delusion.”
“Although oyster mushrooms have been studied extensively and support health in a number of ways, it is also extremely important to always cook oyster mushrooms!”
“The president of a TV network generously agreed to take his company's aptitude test, a test required of all the personnel. He did badly. As a result he was in a sullen mood for the rest of the day. When he got home that night, his wife asked why he looked so grouchy. I took the company's aptitude test this morning. What did it show? asked the wife. It showed, boomed the executive, that such tests are idiotic. That's what it showed.”
“A lot of my success is because of what I look like. I know that.”
“What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.”

Source : John Marsden (1997). “The Dead of Night”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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