#less

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#animal #certain #conversation #ever #furniture

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ↗

— Mark Twain

#limitless #multiplication #necessities #unnecessary

I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all. ↗

— Liv Tyler

#i love #lessons #life #lots #love

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes. ↗

— John Updike

#dear #hearts #new #pleasing #rocks

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#brothers #cannot #condemn #fold #go

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ↗

— Voltaire

#forbidden #kill #large #large numbers #numbers

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#happened #less #more #more or less #much

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#feeling #filled #helplessness #history #national

I am so blessed. How blessed I am to have the life that I have. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#blessed #how #i #i am #life

Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road. ↗

— Kate Walsh

#big #haven #hit #hollywood #just