"It's better to oversleep and miss the boat than get up early and sink."

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Elizabeth Jane Howard

#Missing Quotes #Boat Quotes

“A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.”
“We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.”
“Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.”
“Sometimes the best encouragement in the world is challenging someone to do more than they think they can do.”
“I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.”
“We're all interested in life outside of Earth. We all have a fascination with what's out there because we don't really know.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.”
“To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport”

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