"Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow."

-- Ovid

#Love Quotes #Leisure Quotes #Bows Quotes

“Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards... to the days of Lord Salisbury'.”
“Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns.”
“It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us.”
“News has a way of distancing us from events, even as it informs us about them. News articles almost always present both the event and the responses at the same time - how is President Barack Obama or Congress responding to the events? I think this reflects a deep need we have to feel that things are under control and that events are subject to our influence.”
“The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.”

Source : Harlan Ellison, Arnie Fenner (2011). “Bugf#ck: The Useless Wit & Wisdom of Harlan Ellison”
“The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.”
“Let me be known as just the man that told you something you already knew.”
“Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.”

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