"He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue."

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Mark Twain

#Men Quotes #Gossip Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.”
“All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with judges. *”

Source : Peter Cook, William Cook (2013). “Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook”, p.46, Random House
“Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.”

Source : 'Games People Play' (1964) ch. 18
“But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it. In order that we may accomplish this, He has provided us with a collection of marvelous faculties. And He has put us in the midst of a variety of natural resources. By the application of our faculties to these natural resources we convert them into products, and use them. The process is necessary in order that life may run its appointed course.”
“My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.”

Source : Source: threeguysonebook.com
“The annoying thing about being an atheist is that you'll never have the satifaction of saying to believers, 'I told you so.'”
“Profit by the little trials that come to you, for through them we make real progress.”
“Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.”

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