#rio

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#compliment #him #his #kind #lie

I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#am #done #i #i am #kind

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#calling #growing #had #hair #horrible

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to. ↗

— Janis Ian

#backward #feel #ignorant #just #need

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#life #must #neither #seriously #taken

The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#america #debt #deployments #gratitude #immense

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously. ↗

— David Byrne

#find #hard #i #little #major

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed. ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

#bear #being #business #called #gregarious

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it. ↗

— George Byron

#any #confirms #day #every #every day

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? ↗

— George Byron

#corn #country #hunt #patriots #price