#iv

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#big #bipartisan #cooperation #done #get

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#credit #critics #eventually #find #give

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles. ↗

— Barry Lopez

#giving #language #life

Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#living #life

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#civilised #i #irrevocably #laughter #me

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#duty #furnish #live #lives #mind

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. ↗

— Horace

#living #life

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#activities #again #apart #fly #minds

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#clog #delivers #every #fatal #help

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#duty #escape #mind #obscurity #questioning