"To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world."

-- George Santayana

#Taken Quotes #Passion Quotes #World Quotes

“A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be to mention his mistress, if she is beautiful, to his wife.”
“Records must not be the focus and that's the most important thing. It mustn't come at the cost of the team.”
“The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.”
“I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.”
“When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.”
“I love a girl that can make me laugh. I am not really a laugh-at-things type of guy and I don't smile and laugh all the time... But if a girl can make me laugh... I'm in love!!!!”
“When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this idea. The clashing of atoms by blind chance has nothing in it fit to raise our conceptions, or to elevate the mind. But the regular structure of a vast system of beings, produced by creating power, and governed by the best laws which perfect wisdom and goodness could contrive, is a spectacle which elevates the understanding, and fills the soul with devout admiration.”
“Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.”

Source : John Arbuthnot (2006). “History of John Bull”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

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