Ten Random Quotes

"The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour."
William James

"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."
Benjamin Franklin

"Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another."
Joseph Addison

"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't."
Sir Arthur Eddington

"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."
Frank Lloyd Wright

"One time I went to a museum where all the work in the museum had been done by children. They had all the paintings up on refrigerators."
Steven Wright

"It seems surreal that we're going to play concerts again, because I haven't met anyone who likes us for two years."
Chris Martin

"I am not a crook."
Richard M. Nixon

"My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength."
Michael Jordan

"A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths."
Marina Tsvetaeva

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