"All is fish that comth to net."

-- John Heywood

“A lawyer from Africa wants to marry Malia Obama in exchange for goats, sheep, and cows. In response, President Obama said, 'Don't be ridiculous. My daughter isn't marrying a lawyer.'”
“The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.”
“I grew up with "Follies." I saw it when I was fifteen. It was the original production, and of course, that production will never be equaled.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between flowers of equal loveliness. ... The true anthologist has the greatest difficulty in finishing his book. There is always just one more, a new, delicious discovery.”
“Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.”

Source : 'Youth' (1910) (on Rupert Brooke)
“Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering to different names, dressed differently, perhaps even disguised, perhaps idle and unemployed, their official altars abandoned, their temples feared or simply forgotten.”

Source : Phyllis Chesler (1973). “Women & madness”
“When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.”
“...photography is made essentially of time. I often think that what we show is a point in time, more than a window onto space.”

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