Patrick O'Brian In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil. – Patrick O’Brian Civil Quotes Cost Quotes Day Quotes Insulted Quotes Life Quotes Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book. I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
Malcolm Muggeridge History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that. – Malcolm Muggeridge
Alfred Lord TennysonHopeNew Years Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson
Leigh Bardugo The people who live lives that are the most dangerous don’t usually come in twirling a mustache rubbing their hands menacingly saying ‘I’m an evil genius.’ They’re people who are charismatic, charming and appealing, who speak to some part of us that makes us want to follow them, that makes us attracted to them. – Leigh Bardugo
Jerry Only The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families. – Jerry Only
Fred Allen A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. – Fred Allen
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