"If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event."

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Source : Peter Cook, William Cook (2013). “Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook”, p.61, Random House

Kenneth Tynan

#Wise Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #People Quotes

“European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.”
“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
“Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.”
“Spectators around the world enjoyed watching Seve, but talking to a lot of the players, he made such an impression on them the way he played, and the way he was such a beautiful, natural talent. His hands on the club. His address position. He had an unbelievable way of telegraphing through his countenance what he was going to do with the ball. It was just like an artist.”
“Not to discount my music, but I'm always suspicious of the music that I make on some level, as to how valid it is. Or maybe not "valid," but how important.”
“Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?"... "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223"... "And pray, why would this number interest us?" "It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.”
“We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.”
“Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.”

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