#lent

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#butchers #dealers #fair #fraudulent #keep

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#cures #few #good #hardly #like

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort. ↗

— Chanakya

#done #effort #excellent #him #intends

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#benevolence #craving #gift #himself #implies

They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase. ↗

— Chevy Chase

#called #chase #chevy #chevy chase #make

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire. ↗

— Bobby Unser

#born #career #desire #education #every

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#day #every #every day #excellent #give

There is nothing new in art except talent. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#except #new #nothing #nothing new #talent

I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#allowed #also #am #european #i

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male. ↗

— Julia Child

#be true #because #benevolent #female #generation