"False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them."

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Thomas Otway

#Men Quotes #Promise Quotes #Poor Quotes

“Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug.”

Source : Song: The Bug
“Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made Harry Houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. Everyone wants to escape from something. Taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape.”
“When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of their energies which enables those most powerful in themselves, most destructive to the world's creatures and economy, to dwell associated together and be made subservient to the wants of creation, I rise from the contemplation more than ever impressed with the wisdom, the beneficence, and grandeur, beyond our language to express, of the Great Disposer of us all.”
“The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.”
“I'm feeling pretty fortunate. I've been having lots of lovely auditions and meetings, so I'm savoring the moment.”
“This is a Pandora's box, for endless litigation, for division in society setting one group against another, and we must for that reason, for community cohesion, resist this bill.”
“It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution.”
“Whoever lives in the spirit lives in perennial peace. It is a happy peace, a smiling peace, but one is not lost in it. One is aware also of the suffering which exists around him or her and the world at large.”

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