"If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer."

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Source : Quoted in Observer (London), 27 Dec. 1964.

Clement Freud

#Funny Quotes #Witty Quotes #Giving Up Quotes

“Imagine yourself as a wife, and you have to look at a brain-injured husband for the rest of your life, and he can't talk to you. But we're paying for this. That's the easy part, money payment. But how do you pay for the misery? So if we can, we should be able to avoid war.”

Source : Source: www.achievement.org
“We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.”
“I loved doing school musicals [as a kid], I even started at an early age to write little plays for the school to perform. I was not just keen on that, it was during that time, during the school period then from an early age, that I began to dream about acting.”
“What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse? But a full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as more conversable animal, than an infant of a day or a week or even a month old. But suppose they were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes...”

Source : Jeremy Bentham (2012). “An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation”, p.311, Courier Corporation
“We've always been journalists - and have seen ourselves in that way. But we sort of recontextualized it through music.”
“Helen Lowe writes wonderful stories, yes, but her work also speaks with lyricism to deeper questions of how we treat each other. Â With lovely prose that brings vivid life to her characters, she creates a universe with people we care about. This is an author with a gift for fantasy.”
“Time has changed and now is the age of spending.”
“When you win, you can afford to be gracious, you can afford to have a little more mercy.”

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