"Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the Athenians may have this story to tell of me, and may concern themselves no further with me."

-- Plutarch

#Dog Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Tails Quotes

“For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!”
“I said, â€œI just want to know you and then disappear.â€ She said, â€œKnowing me does not mean dying.”
“I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.”
“It's possible to be thankful wherever you find yourself.”
“After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.413
“You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here”

Source : Song: It's Here, Album: Love Moves
“We are 25 years too late. If the object is to avoid dangerous change, we've already had it. The object now is to avoid really dangerous change.”
“Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.”

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