#hi

You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#cup #england #ethiopia #exceptional #just

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life. ↗

— Ronnie James Dio

#her #his #i #imagination #learned

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. ↗

— William Blake

#folly #fool #his #persists #who

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! ↗

— William Blake

#church #cruelty #demonstrations #dividing #exist

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. ↗

— Diogenes

#former #friends #good #good friends #him

Blushing is the color of virtue. ↗

— Diogenes

#color #virtue

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. ↗

— Diogenes

#being mad #breadth #finger #mad #men

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little. ↗