#fe

Julia's unhappy relationship with the Inland Revenue was due to her omission, during four years of modestly successful practice at the Bar, to pay any income tax. The truth is, I think, that she did not, in her heart of hearts, really believe in income tax. It was a subject which she had studied for examinations and on which she had thereafter advised a number of clients: she naturally did not suppose, in these circumstances, that it had anything to do with real life. ↗

— Sarah Caudwell

#taxes #life

That settles it, no more books about vampire before bedtime. ↗

— Amanda Ashley

#paranormal #perfect #romance #supernatural #vampire

Not many are the moments in life, where the easiest choice also happens to be the best one. Cherish and remember those moments, but do not let them become a habit, for the fruits that hard work reaps are irreplaceable. ↗

— Rosen Topuzov

#happiness #learning #life #love-motto #success

Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth. ↗

— Mallory hopkins

#teeth #life

But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#britain #life #reading #school #life

there is no understanding between me and this world they don't understand me and i don't care them. ↗

— Adnan Khan

#life-and-living #life-experience #life-lessons #reality #understanding

We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is my abandonment. ↗

— Rock Peter

#my-abandonment #peter #rock #wisdom #experience

In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#life-experience #schooling #time #experience

To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures to people the tree of your life and give it new branches. ↗

— Yann Martel

#pi #experience

You always lose a lot of money chasing after women, but you will never lose a lot of women chasing after money ↗

— Foster "Raul" Mkhabele

#life-lessons #experience