"Never call a man a fool; borrow from him"

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Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1908). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom”

Addison Mizner

#Men Quotes #Fool Quotes

“I had to sit down and explain to [her friend] that AA was for quitters”
“Nature is fun to study, but style is everything.”
“I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12”
“I'm bad for your health, like puttin' a pistol up to your face and blastin' yourself.”

Source : Song: Some L.A. Niggaz, Album: 2001
“There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it.”
“Pour faire de l'histoire, il faut savoir compter.”
“The sign of our time is that the dignity of the human personality has no place: the age is, as are its laws, impersonal, its heart as of stone... . Yet on arrest, in the name of these laws, we die like dogs, neither executioner nor victim making a sound. Because he has to gasp for air all his life, panting for breath is the man of today's only way out.”
“I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.”

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