#aid

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #better #colour #joy #less

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#away #many #might #others #pick

Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#being #being afraid #country #did #either

Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing. ↗

— Dominique Wilkins

#basketball #charles #college #ever #go

Like I said, when you have to play against a great player every night, that defines who you are if you can compete on that same level night in and night out. ↗

— Dominique Wilkins

#compete #defines #every #every night #great

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. ↗

— George Will

#baseball #canyon #created #equal #game

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends. ↗

— George Will

#congress #elected #friends #looting #raid

You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes. ↗

— Prince William

#going #hear #horribly #horror #i

We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly. ↗

— Bill Williams

#am #bored #by the people #fly #i

Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid. ↗

— Esther Williams

#clark #clark gable #first #gable #me