#han

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#commoner #everyone #fool #friend #himself

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#better #buried #emperor #living #than

In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#better #chance #cheap #earnings #employment

On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#awarded #brothers #cut #defend #hand

I still find it almost impossible to relax for more than one day at a time. ↗

— Gene Kelly

#day #find #i #impossible #more

Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#because #compelled #different #had #help

I think I am the oldest member and have been in good standing longer than any other member of this church. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#any #been #church #good #his church

The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#enormous #excitement #flew #handkerchiefs #hats

Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#demonstration #does #estate #gracious #handed

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#language #mother #thought