My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
Winston Churchill
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES In order to have sacred thoughts, give up the vices like consumption of non-vegetarian food, smoking... SRI SATHYA SAI BABA The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend... LADY CONSTANCE LYTTON The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend ... LADY CONSTANCE LYTTON A woman drove me to drink. I don't drink and drive. BRIAN SPELLMAN Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred t... MAC THORNBERRY Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�... CHERYL R COWTAN Why do we always begin to think about people when they die? I think we should think about people whi... C. JOYBELL C. I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA When I am fully immersed in my work of nourishing humanity, it fills my head with all kinds of feel-... ABHIJIT NASKAR Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girl... JAMES COBURN Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where... CHRIS PRENTISS When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the tho... JOYCE CAROL OATES Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL And what good is a voice when so few will listen? 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What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor... CARRIE RYAN Anger - a beast within us that needs taming. SARU SINGHAL An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in ... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girl... JAMES COBURN Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS Paul Gascoigne has been under the influence of alcohol before, during and after several first-team g... IMRAAN LADAK In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -Win... WINSTON CHURCHILL I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so ... 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CHARLES BUKOWSKI If i thought this would never happen again I would die. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac... MARGARET ATWOOD Eros (or call it lust if you will), is like a beautiful, magnificent Afghan Hound! A pure white Afgh... C. JOYBELL C. The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as fa... TOM HODGKINSON Day by day we increase in age. Step by step we reduce the number of our steps. When you grow old, yo... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We have within ourselves as a species, to find the beauty in everything. And once we master it, we w... TOM ALTHOUSE All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is
impossible. PAUL DICKSON Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never
play cards with a man named Doc. And... PAUL DICKSON Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum
tolerable well being. PAUL DICKSON Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second
entry. PAUL DICKSON Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended
it to happen. PAUL DICKSON Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
inform the reader but to protect the ... PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know
there is a problem. PAUL DICKSON A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. PAUL DICKSON Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again. PAUL DICKSON About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the
ends. PAUL DICKSON Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
absolutely. PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a
problem, it always helps if you know the ... PAUL DICKSON Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
of the tunnel is the headlight of ... PAUL DICKSON Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the
first word that stuck in his head. MICHAEL BLAKE A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until
the resulting unreliability becom... PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be
going down the drain than to be c... PAUL DICKSON Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane
you want to transfer to is on time... PAUL DICKSON Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice
that is desired. PAUL DICKSON Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a
time. PAUL DICKSON A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. PAUL DICKSON Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than
out of. PAUL DICKSON Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not
entitled to know. (2) If you don't like ... PAUL DICKSON A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good
reason and the real reason. PAUL DICKSON A free agent is anything but. PAUL DICKSON Life is a journey of faces. Each face sees a new group of people changing the face of life and livin... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You see, from where I stand, there are a couple of ways. You continue your journey and you will find... ACKSHAT DEOLI At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w... RICK RIORDAN I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill. MAURICE DRUON We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha... L.M. MONTGOMERY Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it. GINA GREENLEE When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ... HENRY HON Frankie: Eww is that a bug? Fan 1: No, I think it's a sharpie mark. Frankie: It is a bug. FRANK IERO We refused to be what the world want us to be- BAD. We are what we are- GOOD. And that's the way it ... NURUDEEN USHAWU if the world will attain its utmost peace and stability;and contentions be limited, then the ideolog... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Lord, help us to choose humility over pride. Help us to choose love over our reputation. ANDRENA SAWYER That's because of the drinking, smoking and loud noise. MARIA SANCHEZ life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done. JOHN GRISHAM I say to life, "You are very hard", and I also say: "We are blind, we prefer to be blind. It is easi... FLORIDA SCOTT-MAXWELL Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv... ABIGAIL GEORGE An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness... CHERYL R COWTAN While Maddox now believed the demon did not want to hurt Ashlyn, he wasn't willing to take a chance.... GENA SHOWALTER A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains... CHRIS PRENTISS The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there," inside you, waiting to be discove... CHRIS PRENTISS In this life, we reap the results of everything that we do; even if the things that we do and the th... C. JOYBELL C. If tongue didn’t go; a little out of control (after drinking alcohol), then where’s the fun; if ... ANUROOP TYAGI Be nobel. Be the light as if you are the source of life. DEBASISH MRIDHA Success in life is determined by your ability to go from failure to failure without loss of enthusia... WINSTON CHURCHILL People forget that Omar Bradley went all around World War II with a big black poodle named Beau. And... STANLEY COREN I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capab... DIANE ACKERMAN Percy was getting tired of water. If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po... RICK RIORDAN Lie you easy, dream you light, And sleep you fast for aye; And luckier may you find the ni... A.E. HOUSMAN
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