#hum

I have always looked upon a telephone as an official kind of machine which you prepared for with fasting and prayer, and only had recourse to when strictly necessary for important business. ↗

— Charles Norris Williamson

#telephones #business

With me, it was my liver that was out of order. […] I had the symptoms, beyond all mistake, the chief among them being "a general disinclination to work of any kind." What I suffer in that way no tongue can tell. From my earliest infancy I have been a martyr to it. As a boy, the disease hardly ever left me for a day. They did not know, then, that it was my liver. Medical science was in a far less advanced state than now, and they used to put it down to laziness. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#illness #laziness #liver #men

She’ll read your mind like nobody’s business. ↗

— Jayde Scott

#business

At the bottom of the hill they came out of the trees to a busy street and Antwan said, "We cross here." "Ain't no lights here," Antwan said. "Just look out for the ones trying to hit you. There's a nice-looking blonde-haired female human lives around here - any time she sees me she tries to run me down. ↗

— Elmore Leonard

#business

Once you get married, you will be busy with getting a home, renovating it, discussing what furniture to get, what to get rid of, and forever occupied by that existence of a married life. ↗

— Ayyub Malik

#business

You kids today don’t understand. You go into the stalls, and you sit on the toilets, and you read your comic books. But you never think about the brave cleaning supplies that gave their lives so you could have a safe place to do your business. ↗

— Beth Labonte

#business

I love children. Eating them, that is. ↗

— Keith McGowan

#cuisine #eating #folktales #humor #love

Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything?" "Catchy title. I may use it one day. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#humor #roarke #death

I appreciate all the trouble you went to in order to ensure my survival.” “Purely selfish, I assure you.” “Because you need me to oversee your household?” “Because I need you to marry. Men tend to frown at the notion of marrying someone who isn’t breathing. ↗

— Lorraine Heath

#men

Contrary to popular belief, people always say "It was a pleasure doing business with you". It is the only thing that has stayed with me after an assignment. Always mix business with pleasure. That is a secret they don't want you to know. BUT never mix pleasure with business. Then you might just end up in a divorce. ↗

— Nikhil Sharda

#writing-craft #business