"Good things could happen to not so bad people."

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Source : Mike Gayle (2002). “My Legendary Girlfriend”, p.96, Broadway Books

Mike Gayle

#Karma Quotes #People Quotes #Good Things Quotes

“Like associates with like.”
“The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.”
“The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.”
“The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does.”
“At first a golfer excuses a dismal performance by claiming bad lies. With experience, he covers up with better ones.”
“We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.”
“It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or a quotation of an Author, passes for a mighty argument.... This weakness and effeminacy of mankind in being persuaded where they are delighted, have made them the sport of orators, poets, and men of wit.”

Source : George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”
“I think it's interesting that women, by nature, are way more conflicted than men.”

Source : Source: chicagoist.com

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