#amen

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#blessing #new #old #old testament #prosperity

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#idle #less #meeting #more #more or less

I played at the Sainte Maxime Beach Soccer Tournament, which was brilliant fun as usual. ↗

— David Ginola

#brilliant #fun #i #played #soccer

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#death #difference #dying #enlightenment #fundamental

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#cyberspace #first #first amendment #local #ordinance

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps. ↗

— Dave Barry

#american #any #apparently #had #high

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

#between #both #difference #feel #films

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. ↗

— John Barth

#certain #except #god #novelist #realist

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#disarmament #does #fifty #follow #follows

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people. ↗

— Brad Henry

#fundamental #government #people #protect