#doe

Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and in subjecting yourself to a discovered check. It is better when check is given to your King to interpose a man that attacks the checking Piece than with one that does not. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#better #cautious #check #checking #discovered

Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does. ↗

— Imelda Staunton

#brilliant #dench #does #job #judi

Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bad news #ban #because #build #capital

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#being #does #doing #drunk #father

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#end #excuse #failure #itself #need

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#better #different #does #get #older

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#does #i #i do #influence #long

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#believed #century #does #nineteenth #nineteenth century

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#back #civilization #dark #dark ages #does

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#daily #does #miracle #paint #pleasant