"If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself."

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Source : Michael Frayn (2016). “Collected Columns”, p.111, Faber & Faber

Michael Frayn

#Lions Quotes #Speak Quotes

“There's never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.”

Source : Rick Reilly (2003). “The Life of Reilly: The Best of Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly”, Sports Illustrated
“The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.”
“Definitely 99% of the hate I get is from other gay people.”
“But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.”
“At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.”
“It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.”
“It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.”
“There's a lot of great strikers in the business but no one should ever forget about Chuck Liddell.”

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