"Things were first made, then words."

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Source : Sir Thomas Overbury, Edward Francis Rimbault (1856). “The miscellaneous works in prose and verse of Sir Thomas Overbury”, p.38

Thomas Overbury

#Firsts Quotes #Made Quotes

“A healthy dialogue is always good.”
“God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.”

Source : Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Poems of King Alfred”, p.208
“When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.”
“it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.”
“I do my talking inside the Octagon.”
“The cliche of the nerdy kid who doesn't go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it's also true for the nerdy kid who studies comic books and turns into this genius, and it is also true for the nerdy kid who listens to every nerdy thing that Led Zeppelin put out. That kind of obsession in a 16-year-old is not ugly. It's beautiful.”
“Nick is driving us," Jamie informed him. "Nick has a car. Nick has TWO cars. Ha!”
“I'm not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.”

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