"Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad."

-- William Rounseville Alger

#Wise Quotes #Fate Quotes #Tyrants Quotes

“I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.”

Source : "Alexander Payne: Life after Sideways" by Simon Hattestone, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2012.
“We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament.”
“We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.”
“The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.”
“Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.”
“There is nothing like marriage, for two who love one another.”
“Live each day as if was your last, not in the future, not in the past. You may not get what you want, but, in the long run, you will get what you expect.”
“Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.”

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