Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
BARBARA MERTZLoving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are – bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
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A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females…and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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It’s not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,’ said Simmons. ‘Everyone knows you don’t fight like a gentleman.’ ‘That might be called an oxymoron,’ Ramses said. ‘Oh–sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.’ The poor devil didn’t know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.
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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are – bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
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I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
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I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
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Money was the manure of politics.
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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