"Life isn't all beer and skittles."

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Source : Tom Brown's Schooldays pt. 1, ch. 2 (1857)

Thomas Hughes

#Life Quotes #Beer Quotes #Skittles Quotes

“The beautiful is always bizarre.”
“One of the most important lessons she'd recently learned was that looking strong and confident was sometimes all the people required of you.”
“Candice is the original spelling of my name. I changed it to Kandyse when I was really young and first starting out in the business as kind of a joke. I didnt realize it would stick! I did consider changing it, but then it seemed too confusing, so then I asked them to change it back. Not too soon, however!”
“Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.”
“Language is a machine for making falsehoods.”

Source : Iris Murdoch (1977). “Under the Net”, p.51, Penguin
“When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion-that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet-therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul's code.”
“The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now. If you wait, five years from now the gene doctor will be hanging out the MAKE A SMARTER BABY sign down the street.”
“In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.”

Source : Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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