#furnish

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. ↗

— Tad Williams

#find #friends #furnish #go #head

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#baby #born #complete #contend #degeneration

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#fewer #former #furnish #idea #latter

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ↗

— John Locke

#knowledge #makes #materials #mind #only

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#books #else #furnishes #furniture #house

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#comes #furnish #helps #leisure #listen

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#certain #far #find #furnishing #i

There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#drink #food #furnish #head #liquids

It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#front #furnishing #home #i #keep

Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced. ↗

— James Nasmyth

#became #been #england #even #forging