#lent

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#am #being #conclusion #dealt #disease

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#congenial #constitution #excellent #food #health

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

#duck #held #his #man #merciful

My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working with Robin and Sean is that they were devoted to this project and devoted to their characters. You can't ask for any more from talented actors like that. ↗

— Nick Cassavetes

#any #ask #characters #dad #devoted

Where there is great love, there are always wishes. ↗

— Willa Cather

#always #great #great love #love #where

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke. ↗

— Willa Cather

#ghastly #god #hands #i #i think

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#delight #had #necessity #only #pleasure

These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar. ↗

— William Cavendish

#consequently #excellent #hand #haunches #him

A yawn is a silent shout. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#silent #yawn

I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#fighting #find #i #just #like