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Convenience Quotes

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.221, Tuttle Publishing

With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

Joe Orton (2013). “Entertaining Mr Sloane”, p.9, A&C Black

I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.

Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.6, Applewood Books

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs.

"Live album: "Mitch All Together"". December 9, 2003.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

"The enduring American press: texts of talks given by a panel of distinguished journalists and scholars at a symposium marking the 200th anniversary of the Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut". Book by The Hartford Courant, 1964.

Each one writes history according to his convenience.

Letter to Blumentritt from Leipzig, August 22, 1886.

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

Oliver Goldsmith (1858). “The Vicar of Wakefield ... Nach Walter Scott's verbessertem Texte durchgängig accentuirt. Nebst ... Noten und einem vollständigen Wörterbuche ... Bearbeitet von Christian Heinrich Plessner ... Fünfte Auflage”, p.201