"Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness."

-- Nicolas Chamfort

#Honor Quotes #Selfishness Quotes #Gluttony Quotes

“The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.”

Source : "Catch as Catch Can". www.theregister.co.uk. January 11, 2006.
“Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things.”
“Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.”
“The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.”
“I have a beautiful wife and a wonderful support system and I think in those low moments, I could never thank them enough.”
“I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.”

Source : "Her brilliant career" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2004.
“We still lack a global definition of terrorism.”
“A newspaper reported that I spent $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear”

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