#he

The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#beaten #because #been #blows #encourage

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#been #civilization #cultivated #extract #ingrained

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge. ↗

— Herman Melville

#depends #handsome #hideous #i #i am

The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you. ↗

— David Mellor

#any #behavioural #complaining #eat #like

I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#actor #best #bike #city #close

If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#could #fountain #get #good #i

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. ↗

— Herman Melville

#frontiers #passport #pays #sin #stopped

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#evidence #hear #jail #jury #laughing

The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#assemble #little #now #producers #seems

My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today. ↗

— Michael Michele

#mother #other #people #philosophy #problem