"It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy."

-- Chauncey Depew

#Nice Quotes #Taffy Quotes #Alive Quotes

“When an old man and a young man work together, it can make an ugly sight or a pretty one, depending on who's in charge. If the young man's in charge or won't let the old man take over, the young man's brute strength becomes destructive and inefficient, and the old man's intelligence, out of frustration, grows cruel and inefficient. Sometimes the old man forgets that he is old and tries to compete with the young man's strength, and then it's a sad sight. Or the young man forgets that he is young and argues with the old man about how to do the work, and that's a sad sight, too.”

Source : Russell Banks (1986). “Trailerpark”
“Real success doesn't care how you get there.”
“Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.”
“I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“["The Sun Also Rises" is about] bullfighting, bullslinging and bullsh[*]t.”
“Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.”
“It's fun to play defense. It's fun to watch the opponent sweat on offense, start complaining to the officials, and eventually be taken out of the game because he's making so many offensive mistakes”
“He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.”

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