#fr

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics. ↗

— Quintus Ennius

#down #english #friend #i #i am

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#anyway #choose #equality #favor #freedom

If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college. ↗

— John Gardner

#college #freedom #gets #give #including

The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#colonies #conquest #contact #dutch #free

The secret of it is to read what you've got in front of you. Don't, if you suspect that something has a double meaning, don't pause. Don't put on a leery vocal expression if you know what I mean on radio. Don't sort of do anything other than read it. ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#double #double meaning #expression #front #got

I have known Harold Ford Jr. since before he was born, in that his father was my driver in the 1966 governor's race, and has remained a friend of mine all these years. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#born #driver #father #ford #friend

I am a writer of fragments. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#fragments #i #i am #writer

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts. ↗

— Dirk Kempthorne

#conservation #cooperation #efforts #federal #hallmark

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#built #friendship #like #love #mansion

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#beyond #body #cessation #dying #frightening