#la

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#because #characters #even #kind #leeway

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes? ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#genocide #guard #huddled #indian #indian tribes

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#cage #claws #climbed #face #her

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#law #makes #wisdom

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#comparison #conception #else #formerly #glory

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#am #dark #great #i #i am

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#error #him #his #law #man

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#glory #laughter #maketh #passion #sudden

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. ↗

— David Hobson

#challenge #elements #eye #grow #i

There are enough no smoking places now. ↗

— David Hockney

#now #places #smoking