"There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy."

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Source : Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

Stella Benson

#Thinking Quotes #Class Quotes #Two Quotes

“[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting.”
“I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard.”
“It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.”
“I'm a big deal That's why I get more head than a pigtail”

Source : Song: Itty Bitty Piggy, 2009
“A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.”
“The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.”

Source : Ambrose Philips, Jean Racine, Thomas Otway, Thomas Southern, Nicholas Rowe (1817). “Tragedy of the Distrest Mother Transl. from the Andromaque of Racine, with the Life of the Author by Johnson and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”
“Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.”
“The past is gone. I know it sounds clichÃ©, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.”

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