#usa

People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy. ↗

— John Barrow

#assume #because #complete #fallacy #financial

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. ↗

— Dave Barry

#always #miles #opportunity #prevailing #rain

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#everything #human #human thought #late #more

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#defeated #educated #refusal #some

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#am #beethoven #birth #i #i am

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#enough #many #me #thousand #too

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#am #book #crusades #dull #i

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. ↗

— John Berger

#chain #dogs #must #never #sausages

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#come #go #into #lawsuit #machine

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#crusades #equality #goodness #openmindedness #religion