#ash

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve. ↗

— Buddha

#grain #ones #sieve #speech #their

Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else. ↗

— Allan Sherman

#automobile #crash #else #getting #happens

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#end #fight #fire #people #up

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#commerce #easy #fashion #jackets #meat

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess. ↗

— Fanny Burney

#ashamed #confess #confessing #i #i am

I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman. ↗

— John Burns

#ashamed #i #i am #say #son

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#dew #evanescent #flash #human #human life

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

#anger #ashamed #contempt #hate #hearts

I'm a little old-fashioned. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#little #old-fashioned

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure. ↗

— George W. Bush

#ambitious #failure #hope #hopeful #i