#chi

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#chivalry #end #fathers #led #man

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#as far as #believe #far #go #lets

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#beside #bodies #children #creation #elemental

When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together. ↗

— Alfre Woodard

#everyone #fall #falling #falling in love #familiar

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth. ↗

— Leon Askin

#belated #birth #city #end #fame

Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

#death #nearest #parents #store #taking

I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn't get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I decided to go on a diet. ↗

— Robert Atkins

#chins #decided #diet #get #go

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#also #apart #be careful #becomes #being

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book? ↗

— David Attenborough

#book #elephant #except #grandchildren #happy

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great. ↗

— Clement Attlee

#child #communism #great #illegitimate #karl