"Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you."

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Judith Martin

#Honesty Quotes #Smart Quotes #Ducks Quotes

“Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.”
“The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.”
“Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community does not necessarily have to be a city. There's all the evidence in the world that the building of cities is one of the worst mistakes that mankind has ever made: For both physical and mental health we've got to be close to Mother Earth.”
“Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.”

Source : "Other Inquisitions". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1952.
“Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.”
“As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.”
“I was not prepared for the actual process itself; having to go to the shop and having some molds done.”
“While there is tea, there is hope.”

Source : Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1908). “The Plays of Arthur W. Pinero: Sweet Lavender”

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