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Quote by Francis Quarles

“Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.”

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Francis Quarles, a renowned English poet, was born on May 8, 1592, and died on September 8, 1644. His poetry focused on religious and moral themes, deeply influenced by Puritan thought. more

“Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.”

People Thinking Knows Should Trying Long Enough Evil Heaven Laughing Cutting Plans Ought Claims Court Prison Lawyer Insanity Long Ago Locks Rope Doers Villainy Gallows Subterfuge Evil Doers

Author:Mark Twain

“My career only took off because of one football game. I thought it was funny. 'Playboy' called and offered me a cover just like that. I turned them down initially, because I was nervous about it and my boyfriend at the time didn't want me to do it, but they kept coming back , so I eventually said yes.”

Want Said Games Careers Football Nervous Want Me Coming Back My Boyfriend Playboy Football Game

Author:Pamela Anderson

“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”

“But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.”

Mountain Notes Insane Insanity Climbers Mountain Climbers

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.”

Want Law Lying Evil Crime Insanity True Evil

Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.”

Thousand Insane Idiot Insanity Novelists Asylums Humorists Crazy People Inmates Insane Asylum

Author:Mark Twain

“No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.”

Knows Years Form Insanity Sane

Book:Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

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