You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through. – Ilya Ehrenburg
Quotes
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Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease. – John Witherspoon
I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference…. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success. – Hyman G. Rickover
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit. – Lewis Carroll
“One must not make oneself cheap here, that is a cardinal point, or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“I was getting sick and tired of being lectured by dear friends with their little bottles of water and their regular visits to the gym. All of a sudden, we’ve got this voluntary prohibition that has to do with health and fitness. I’m not really in favor of health and fitness.” – Barbara Holland
“I’m beginning to have morning sickness. I’m not having a baby, I’m just sick of morning.” – Phyllis Diller
“One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.” – Virginia Woolf
I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren’t what they used to be, I always forget to include myself. – George Burns
Happiness is simply a temporary condition that proceeds unhappiness. Fortunately for us, it works the other way around as well. But it’s all a part of the carnival, isn’t it? – Federico Fellini
