My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.
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My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.
Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.
I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
Going in one more round when you don't think you can - that's what makes all the difference in your life.
When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.
In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.
Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark
It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.
Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on.
Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?
Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!
How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe.
This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.
Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.
To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching the walls and now and then peeping through the windows. Facts are the key.
As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.
Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.
At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.
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