"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch."

-- Woody Allen

#Funny Quotes #Life Quotes #Grandfather Quotes

“There is nothing to achieve, there is only surrender to a life of service.”

Source : Reshad Feild (1996). “The Last Barrier: A Universal Search for Self Discovery”, Element Books Limited
“People assume that I'm wiser than I am because I'm somewhat successful. Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. If you're dumb when you're young, you're going to be dumb when you're old.”

Source : "Estelle Getty, ‘Golden Girls’ Matriarch, Dies at 84". The New York Times, July 23, 2008.
“The early church didnâ€™t say, â€˜Look what the world is coming to!â€™ They said, â€˜Look what has come into the worldâ€™!”
“I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”
“And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.”
“Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.”

Source : Kazuo Ishiguro (1982). “A Pale View of Hills”, Thorndike Press
“Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to age, by the most ignorant and vicious of the human race. Need we any other proof of their wretched management, than the excess of debts and taxes with which every nation groans, and the quarrels into which they have precipitated the world?"”

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