Andrew Sharp quotes

Wine was created with man in mind, for his pleasure and relaxation, a balm to his good health.
-- Andrew Sharp

#Wine #Men #Relaxation

Hard work and talent are crucial to success, and intangible qualities like heart and clutch are generally real - but luck is just as important. Nobody gets to the top by accident, but nobody’s on top without some pretty phenomenal accidents of fate.
-- Andrew Sharp

#Real #Hard Work #Heart

Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.

Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Show me a worrying person and I will show you a person who does not know how to relax.

Music is a pastime, a relaxation from more serious occupations.

I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.