"The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox."

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Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Foxes Quotes #Cunning Quotes

“I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.”
“Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.”
“The last fling of winter is over ... The earth, the soil itself, has a dreaming quality about it. It is warm now to the touch; it has come alive; it hides secrets that in a moment, in a little while, it will tell.”
“You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.”
“It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips.”
“The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox.”
“Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave me a way into something important happening in modern-day culture.”
“'The Black Parade' is an epic, theatrical, orchestral, big record that is also a concept album.”

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