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James Howell
"Words and works eat not at one table." --
Source : James Howell (1660). “Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)”
James Howell
#Tables Quotes
“Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.”
“When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.”
Source : "Inspired Economics" by Margaret Mason, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 1990.
“Dubstep didn't invent bass, it just zoned in on it. Bass, to varying depths, is the foundation to most dance musics.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.”
“hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.”
“One of the most striking and fundamental things about probability theory is that it leads to an understanding of the otherwise strange fact that events which are individually capricious and unpredictable can, when treated en masse, lead to very stable average performances.”
Source : Warren Weaver (2012). “Lady Luck: The Theory of Probability”, p.361, Courier Corporation
“At home, I make a large batch of tomato sauce and freeze it in meal-size portions in freezer bags.”
“I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go.”
