"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Witty Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Humorous Quotes

“Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.”

Source : Song: Your Mind Is On Vacation
“Women are always beautiful.”
“In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.”
“The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn by heart is to afford the text or music an indwelling clarity and life-force.”
“When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.”

Source : "American Speaker : Your Guide to Successful Speaking". Book by Aram Bakshian, 1992.
“If you have a big splash of ecstasy in your life every day you are going to teach students something finer than "buy low/sell high". Maybe you'll teach them, not by what you say but by who you are, to live their lives as a standing affront to the ravaging mercantile mentality.”
“The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.”

Source : Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”
“Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.”

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