Had I crossed the passSupported by a stick,I would have spared myselfThe fall from the horse (Bashō Matsuo, The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches)
If at first you don’t succeed you’re running about average
If at first you don’t succeed you’re running about average (M. H. Alderson)
With fame, you can’t trust everybody. You can’t depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you’ve got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you’ve got and what you can bring to their life. It’s not a relationship-it’s a leech
With fame, you can’t trust everybody. You can’t depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you’ve got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you’ve got and what you can bring to their life. It’s not a relationship-it’s a leech (Chris Brown)
A mother is an unrelenting source of love
A mother is an unrelenting source of love (Farshad Asl)
Once upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aStop this. It’s undignified
Once upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aStop this. It’s undignified (N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms)
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master (Henry James)
A bit of fantasy can be good for ones heart – Sylvia Abolis Mennear, Enchanted Castle on the River: ‘Matt’s Journey’
A bit of fantasy can be good for ones heart – Sylvia Abolis Mennear, Enchanted Castle on the River: ‘Matt’s Journey’
And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain (…) It’s the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people’s money
And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain (…) It’s the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people’s money (Margaret Thatcher)
Be grateful for the rain because without it we wouldn’t have beautiful rainbows
Be grateful for the rain because without it we wouldn’t have beautiful rainbows (Marcus Asutaitis)
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together (Edmund Burke)