#heir

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied. ↗

— John Woolman

#case #cast #civil #civil society #disorder

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period. ↗

— Frances Wright

#expand #like #little #over #owners

A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts? ↗

— Sabrina Jeffries

#heiresses #men #funny

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#architect #as far as #build #buildings #bury

Men create the gods in their own image. ↗

— Xenophanes

#gods #image #men #own #their

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred. ↗

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

#everyone #hatred #play #role #should

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#buildings #criticized #i #incorporating #our

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#behind #black #broken #feet #god

[…] One night, five men from Nuweiba were travelling past the mountain, and one of them fell behind, and was separated from his companions. As the man – whom we will call Ahmed – wandered in the darkness, wondering where his friends had gone, a beautiful woman suddenly appeared out of the night and blocked his path. She gave him a choice: ‘Sex, or be eaten!’ It was not a difficult decision. As the Bedouins put it, ‘the man did what a man has to do.’ […] ↗

— Robert W. Lebling

#hilarity #jinn #supernatural #beauty

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#others #own #poor #prevented #rich