"Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure."

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Source : "Attributed to Oliver Herford in "Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms" (p. 187)". 1955.

Oliver Herford

#Inspirational Quotes #Witty Quotes #Drinking Quotes

“I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'”
“Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.”
“Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.”
“Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed to have on a Browning or a Tennyson. Indeed it seems to me that an exact homology exists between painting and poetry on the one hand and modem chemistry and modem algebra on the other. In poetry and algebra we have the pure idea elaborated and expressed through the vehicle of language, in painting and chemistry the idea enveloped in matter, depending in part on manual processes and the resources of art for its due manifestation.”
“Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.”
“True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.”
“We're going to make sure, regardless of disagreements we have on policy, that our military and intelligence cooperation to keep the Israeli people safe continues and that cooperation also helps the American people stay safe.”
“Perfection never exists in reality, but only in our dreams.”

Source : Rudolf Dreikurs (2013). “The Challenge of Marriage”, p.94, Taylor & Francis

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