#iv

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#centuries #comedy #creative #dante #did

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#black #black coffee #carrots #coffee #diet

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#does #door #find #flies #fortune

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? ↗

— Maria Montessori

#always #antiquated #behind #conceived #development

The Universal view melts things into a blur. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#into #melts #things #universal #view

Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries. ↗

— Ronnie Montrose

#attempting #banging #caused #felt #fries

And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#accordance #construct #creation #each #economic

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#grow #living #really

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child. ↗

— Susanna Moodie

#child #children #display #dress #envy

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in. ↗

— Dwight L. Moody

#fifty #give #give me #i #i do