#lea

Ponder well on this point: the pleasant hours of our life are all connected by a more or less tangible link, with some memory of the table. ↗

— Charles Pierre Monselet (

#french-author #life #memories #pleasant #table

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#greatest #greatest pleasures #narrowly #only #pleasures

Every pain is a lesson. ↗

— Frank Delaney

#lesson #lessons #pain #perseverance #the-matchmaker-of-kenmare

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#learning #twenty #knowledge

Smartass Disciple: Master, what did you do to earn wisdom ? Master of Stupidity: Well, I forget. Shit happened, life goes on. ↗

— Toba Beta

#learning #life #practice #tough #wisdom

If you do what we ask you to do, the victories will belong to you, and the losses to me. ↗

— Dean Smith

#submission #leadership

The Dandy is the highest form of existence attainable by the human form. His life is exclusively dedicated to dressing exquisitely, parading about the fashionable boroughs of splendid cities and and holding forth at his club, where he dispenses witticism as readily as the vulgaroisie utters its banal platitudes. The only species of 'work' this singular Chap might engage in would consist of discussing buttonhole stitching with his tailor and performing his ablutions until the morning has been well aired enough for him to step into it. ↗

— Gustav Temple and Vic Darkwood

#britain #chap #chappism #chaps #civility

Life is more than love and pleasure, I came to dig for treasure. If you want to play, you gotta pay, You know it's always been that way We all came digging for treasure. ↗

— Stephen King

#pleasure #treasure #life

If we don't control our schedule - our schedule will control us. If we don't find a way to live a balanced life -our lives will get out of balance. ↗

— Wayde Goodall

#leaderhsip #life

Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent. ↗

— Ariel Sabar

#language-learning #life #tradition #life