"Where there is abundance you can afford waste."

-- Wyndham Lewis

#Waste Quotes #Abundance Quotes

“I am now even more persuaded of the urgent need to study why Socrates was accused. The dislike of philosophy is perennial, and the seeds of the condemnation of Socrates are present at all times, not in the bosoms of pleasure-seekers, who don't give a damn, but in those of high-minded and idealistic persons who do not want to submit their aspirations to examination.”

Source : "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Western Civ," p. 19, 1990.
“It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage.”
“You know, what we list as a hate group are groups that vilify or defame entire groups of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.”
“People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it was so absurd that you can't help laughing. And the person that was concerned about that story was laughing too”
“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.”
“A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.”
“And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1919). “Poems, 1908-1919”

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