"How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?"

-- Elizabeth Gaskell

#Smart Quotes #Party Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“That was rude, you *are*! Rabbit knows a thing or two and I myself, don't need a weathervane to tell which way the wind blows.”
“The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.”
“At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”
“You can't have a Superman that is battling cultural morality. You need a Superman that has built in sort of values.”
“The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.”
“I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: My son did this to me. I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: I forgive my son. Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand.”
“The chaotic theory of education is that you go to college, earn a degree and then that degree may be used in something completely different. It's about achieving the goal first.”

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“Players today can only shoot with their laces. I could shoot with the inside, laces, and outside of both feet. In other words, I was six times better than today's players.”

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