"You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips."

-- Scott Westerfeld

#Lips Quotes #Young Quotes

“Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse”

Source : George E. Vaillant (2012). “Triumphs of Experience”, p.50, Harvard University Press
“Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things. What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is.”
“Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.”
“By pagans the Jews (and later Christians) were seen as perverse, almost indeed as atheists, for they denied the very existence of other gods.”
“...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain). Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of the U.S. population today - subtle logicians like you - can grasp such nuances. Too bad. The Constitution wasn't meant to be a brain-twister.”
“I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.”
“Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.”
“Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.”

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