Mark Twain Quotes
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
Mark Twain
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
Malala Yousafzai
But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
Rafael Palmeiro
Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
Yotam Ottolenghi
At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
Fernando Pessoa
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Isaac Asimov
It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!
Gail Sheehy
He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
Jack Nicklaus
Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.
Edie McClurg
It is important that South Africans of all political persuasions be represented in Parliament.
Cyril Ramaphosa
Lewis Carroll, you see, wasn't really interested in telling an exciting story. Well, he wasn't interested in things like cause and effect or a linear narrative. It's surreal, it's absurd, it's wordplay, it's satirical, it's analyzing itself, it's funny, it's an enormous challenge.
James Bobin
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
Mark Twain