"When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth."

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Source : On not being Dead, as Reported

Elmer Davis

#Men Quotes #Half Quotes #Telling The Truth Quotes

“At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.”
“I think poetry is best read to oneself.”
“The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.”
“Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they're young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don't want to leave the toy store.”
“Capitalism works. In the end, socialism imploded on itself. Communism imploded on itself. Ultimately jihadism will implode on itself, if we stay in the fight and stay on offense because failed philosophies don't work, there's no future.”
“There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy.”
“The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and constitutional liberty.... Perhaps the most remarkable characteristic of this political theory sits in its deep-seated conservatism. However radical the principles of the Revolution may have seemed to the rest of the world, in the minds of the colonists they were thoroughly preservative and respectful of the past.”
“I think people when they think of comedic actors they forget that they are people with a point of view and experiences and depth.”

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