#knows

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#difference #dress #himself #his #knows

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way. ↗

— Steve Martin

#cringe #explains #gets #i #into

That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#dealing #god #knows #more #somebody

It's just so weird when an entire nation knows what you are going through. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#entire nation #going #just #knows #nation

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#cat #know #knows #lifetimes #much

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#business #business world #everything #executive #knows

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#child #distorted #history #knows #lenses

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#believe #faith #knows #someone #true

I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like. I am the gay parent. America has watched me parent my children on TV for six years. They know what kind of parent I am. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#america #children #gay #i #i am

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#children #everybody #except #how #knows