"Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood, Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud, Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood."

-- Jonathan Swift

#Rain Quotes #Cat Quotes #Blood Quotes

“Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.”
“I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.”
“I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.”
“Even if you can't just snap your fingers and make a dream come true, you can travel in the direction of your dream, every single day and you can shorten the distance between the two of you.”
“Having one less child is the biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet”
“But however mysterious is nature , however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science , the patronage and the success of quacks and quackeries are infinitely more wonderful than those of honest and laborious men of science and their careful experiments.”

Source : P. T. Barnum (2013). “The Humbugs of the World”, p.149, Lulu.com
“As we all know, the most effective lies are the ones sprinkled with the most actual truths.”
“No' is the second shortest word in the English language, but one of the hardest to say.”

Source : "The Power of 'No'” by Raymond J. Arroyo, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2012.

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