"It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it."

-- Gertrude Jekyll

#Men Quotes #Trying Quotes #Digging Quotes

“From the writer's point of view, critics should be ignored, although it's hard not to do what they suggest. I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. Suppose you write something that stinks, what are they going to say in a review? Say it stinks? So if they're honest, they do, and if you were friends you're still friends, but the knowledge of your lousy writing and their articulate admission of it will be always something between the two of you, like the knowledge between a man and his wife of some shady adultery.”
“The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.”

Source : Michael Foot's remarks on the Profumo Scandal, 1963.
“There were too many ears that listened for others besides themselves, and too many tongues that wagged to those they shouldn't.”

Source : Mildred D. Taylor (2004). “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.75, Penguin
“Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.”
“...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.”
“I am a huge fan of Bollywood movies. Whenever I get time, I enjoy watching Hindi movies. Cooking really interests me, so I also experiment with food in my free time.”
“What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace.”
“With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.”

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