#it

Moderation is the only rule of a healthful life. This means moderation in all things wholesome. ↗

— Herbert M. Shelton

#life #natural-hygiene #nutrition #art

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter. ↗

— Anne Fadiman

#pen #pens #writers #writing #humor

Shut the front door! ↗

— Jaci Burton

#vulgarity #humor

During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by 'preventing worse language.' In the military it would be called friendly fire. One ends up just as dead. ↗

— John Frohnmayer

#law #politics #art

I can be humbler than anyone. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#humility #humor #irony #humor

Piteous human insecurities make the world go round. ↗

— Thanos Grigoriou

#humor #insecurity #humor

Kill all the prisoners, because they’re costing us too much money. Wait! No, kill all the politicians, because they’re spending too much money. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#kill #money #politicians #politics #prisoners

Charlotte Palmer is no sillier than Harriet Smith; and yet, how intolerable we should find it to see and hear as much of Charlotte as we do of Harriet! And would Miss Bates have been endurable if she had been presented in the mood and manners of Sense and Sensibility? ↗

— Mary Lascelles

#jane-austen #sense-and-sensibility #art

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#enough #ice #lies #she #tells

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#angry #arrested #because #before #everyone