"The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offence."

-- Walter Savage Landor

#Giving Quotes #Sincere Quotes #Prudence Quotes

“My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.”

Source : Zachary Taylor, S. HORN (1848). “All the Letters of Major General Z. Taylor: Anecdotes of rough and ready: Songs of Old Zach's Campaigns, etc. [Edited by] S. Horn”, p.10
“I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do.”
“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.”
“We saw The Man From La Mancha, and I remember there was a scene where the woman's skirt fell off, and I got embarrassed and excited at the same time.”
“Are you familiar with that play? In fact, we're almost living it!”
“It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.”
“Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.”
“I dare anyone to play like Charlie Watts.”

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