"I don't know whether my husband is a genius or not, but he certainly has a dirty mind."

-- Nora Barnacle

#Husband Quotes #Dirty Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Not everybody's confident their whole life.”
“Starch makes the gentleman, etiquette the lady.”
“We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.”
“I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.”
“Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.”
“The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.”
“The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.”
“Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.”

Source : Shirley Hazzard (2016). “We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays”, p.67, Columbia University Press

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