#hem

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#child #consults #does #flatters #forward

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#catching #chocolate #cold #drowning #dry

Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully. ↗

— Vilayat Inayat Khan

#beauty

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#based #change #conservatism #idea #leave

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read! ↗

— Ralph Chaplin

#facts #read #speak #them #themselves

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#cottage #courts #me #same #show

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that. ↗

— Prince Charles

#buildings #did #down #give #knocked

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#both #conflict #cure #everybody #give

I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#costume #couple #dressed #got #had

Love's a recurring theme through my work. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#recurring #theme #through #work