"Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court."

-- Adam Haslett

#Ends Quotes #Court Quotes #Deranged Quotes

“You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one.”
“O how long ago the earth would have been destroyed, if Mary had not interposed!”
“My business in the beginning was very lawless and the more trouble I go into, the more the promoters liked me back then. I was on the front page for doing something wrong, the arena was full. Then, all of a sudden, everything changed somehow and they put rules in. You put rules in a gunfight? I'm not so good at following those rules. I don't' know what will happen at WrestleMania.”

Source : "New Rules Every Day: An Interview with "Rowdy" Roddy Piper". Interview with Austin Kaus, 605magazine.com. April 4, 2014.
“O proudly name their names who bravely sail| To seek brave lost in Arctic snows and seas!”
“A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.”

Source : Henry Adams, Thomas Eakins (2005). “Eakins Revealed: The Secret Life of an American Artist”, p.150, Oxford University Press on Demand
“Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.”
“If you want to know somebody, fight 'em. Have a fistfight with them.”
“Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.”

Source : John Campbell Shairp (1872). “Studies in Poetry and Philosophy”, p.333

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