#ever

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#after #alone #been #day #depends

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds. ↗

— Sophocles

#base #cities #corrupts #currency #deeds

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future. ↗

— Sophocles

#dead #future #lost #neglects #past

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness. ↗

— Sophocles

#kindness

No lie ever reaches old age. ↗

— Sophocles

#ever #lie #old #old age #reaches

A lie never lives to be old. ↗

— Sophocles

#lives #never #old

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies. ↗

— Sophocles

#bred #children #except #furnishes #gives

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near. ↗

— Sophocles

#every #every man #far #man #near

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water. ↗

— Marilyn French

#drinks #everybody #geniuses #great #those

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape? ↗

— Marilyn French

#escape #ever #like #nothing #parts