"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow."

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Source : Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.473, The Floating Press

#Work Quotes #Boys Quotes #Play Quotes

“She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.”

Source : Gail Carriger (2012). “Timeless: Book 5 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.29, Hachette UK
“Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.”
“Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.”
“The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.”
“I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.”
“Going to the office of some stranger and waiting in a line, in a hallway, with five other guys who look just like you, waiting your turn to go in and embarrass yourself, and then waiting around for feedback, which never comes. I really like that. For a young artist, it seems like the perfect thing to be doing, humiliation, over and over and over and over. Which I'm sure can't be the way that some people look at it, but I thought that was so great. The point of it is if you make your own stuff you don't have to deal with other people's bullshit.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We are in conflict with the world; otherwise, there would be no necessity to put forth tremendous effort to meet the world and its demands.”
“Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty.”

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