#ill

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#disappear #fulfill #magic #make #people

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#more #often #than #trouble #worth

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#back #believe #better #cruelty #life

If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one. ↗

— Gerry Cooney

#could #don king #end #fighting #fights

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ↗

— John Dryden

#degrees #gather #habits #ill #make

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail. ↗

— John Dryden

#foreign #his #lash #lion #now

I still feel like I haven't grown up. ↗

— David Duchovny

#grown #haven #i #like #still

Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm. ↗

— David Duchovny

#bed #best #catch #college #ever

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#forty #judgment #reigns #thirty #twenty

I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#constantly #discovered #encounter #feel #feeling