#our

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face. ↗

I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians. ↗

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#bad #feet #get #glass #jig

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#any #blindly #encourage #even #fight

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#cruel #english #especially #five #i

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#animate #discouraged #elaborate #grace #invites

If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#appear #court #once #out #philosophic

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour. ↗

— Sacha Baron Cohen

#develop #history #humour #i #i think

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace. ↗

— Hamilton Fish

#dying #let us #living #our #peace

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant. ↗