"Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities."

-- Plutarch

#Wise Quotes #Adversity Quotes #Men Quotes

“How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.”
“When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately as the god he worshiped. After all, "he seldom did anything without consulting it: he called it his oracle, and said it pointed out the time for every action in his life." To Jonathan Swift in 1726 that was worth a bit of satire. Modernity was under way. We're all Gullivers now. Or are we Yahoos?”
“Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.”
“I'm a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.”
“The controversy between rule of law and rule of men was never relevant to women because, along with juveniles, imbeciles, and other classes of legal nonpersons, they had no access to law except through men.”

Source : "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler and Herbert M. Adler, 1975.
“Did we kiss last night?" "Yes." "Well, it wasn't memorable because I have no recollection of it." He laughs. "I was kiddin'. We didn't kiss." He leans in. "When we kiss you'll remember it.Forever.”
“I cannot think of a worse way of destroying an animal. Only two other methods come to mind, and they are similar. One is to boil the fox alive, and the other is to burn it alive. Those are just about the only alternatives that are worse than hunting.”
“I used to only worry about the #1's and all of the awards. But that was a long time ago.”

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