#aught

Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse. ↗

— Edward Lear

#caught #house #living #mouse #muffin

I bought my daughter a Chihuahua and I fell in love with it. So now I carry Coco around with me all the time. ↗

— Denis Leary

#bought #carry #chihuahua #daughter #fell

I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#decided #feel #hoping #i #i can

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#how #me #mob #play #taught

I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex. ↗

— John Malkovich

#daughter #dress #i #never #newly

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#another #appear #arises #big #bring

She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say, 'I am conquered by the era, like all my breed. I am dying, but I despise you,' and - devil take me! - plebeian as I am, and though it is not very philosophical , I cannot help finding that beautiful. ↗

— Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

#haughty #women #beauty

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble. ↗

— John Entwistle

#already #bass #by the time #guitar #hands

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me. ↗

— Antonio Villaraigosa

#believe #got #grow #grow up #i

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#poetry #question #second #taught #think