Miscellaneous quotes
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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain1835–1910A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889), Ch. 43It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
The biggest bore is the person who is bored by everyone and everything.
All praise is to Allah, I’ll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I’d fight him too.
I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
?UnattributedOften credited to Benjamin FranklinThe World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
?UnattributedOften credited to Augustine of Hippo- ?UnattributedClash By Night
Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.
