"Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in hen-roost set a spell, Prepar'd by arts, to them best known To catch all feet except their own, Who, as to fortune, can unlock it, As easily as pick a pocket."

-- Charles Churchill

#Art Quotes #Feet Quotes #Pockets Quotes

“Let me say to you, that many of you will see the time when you will have all the trouble, trial and persecution that you can stand, and plenty of opportunities to show that you are true to God and his work. This Church has before it many close places through which it will have to pass before the work of God is crowned with victory. The time will come when no man nor woman will be able to endure on borrowed light. Each will have to be guided by the light within himself. If you do not have it, how can you stand?”
“Everything Will Ferrell says during scenes is so funny and so natural. I was amazed at his genius.”
“It is impossible for forward play to be quite as safe as back play, because there must be a moment when the ball is out of sight.”
“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”
“What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.”
“All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better.”
“I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they do that separately from adults.”
“Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.”

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