#end

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#book #dead #died #friends #guts

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#civilization #discussing #emotional #fact #friendly

In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#always #convenience #deliberately #devices #did

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#end #never #romance #science #sentiment

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#better #blow #depends #either #fly

My son Cooper has just turned ten and the sarcasm fairy has already started to take up residence inside his body. Not only am I living with my mother - again! - but I've also got her mini-me to contend with. ↗

— Melissa Rivers

#already #also #am #body #contend

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part. ↗

— Charles Spalding

#action #ambassador #else #endless #everyone

Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants? ↗

— Peter Brimelow

#open #own #owning #restaurants #schools

Because Ann learned to trust God fifteen years ago, she is able to trust God now with an even more difficult situation. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#faith #trials #trust #faith

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#feel #friends #resentful #succeed #superior