"In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough."

-- C. S. Lewis

#People Quotes #Excuse Quotes #Enough Quotes

“~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners.... The one thing you've got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time.~”
“Sleep is death without the responsibility.”
“Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.”
“Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability”
“I like playing for Oakland, they have a very colorful uniform.”
“We are many small puppets moved by fate and fortune through strings unseen by us; therefore, if it is so as I think, one has to prepare oneself with a good heart and indifference to accept things coming towards us, because they cannot be avoided, and to oppose them requires a violence that tears our souls too deeply, and it seems that both fortune and men are always busy in affairs for our dislike because the former is blind and the latter only think of their interest.”
“The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.”

Source : Katy Lederer (2008). “The Heaven-sent Leaf: Poems”, Boa Editions
“To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.”

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