#lie

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#age #attained #dignity #legend #lie

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable. ↗

— Helen Gahagan

#discovering #done #duplication #established #half

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#age #bad #beauty #even #everything

We have investigative staff who are charged by law and this committee under the Constitution of the United States has a responsibility, taxpayers' money, and an agency which we fund from the government, they bought weapons, we believe and we think that - I don't know who did what. ↗

— John Mica

#believe #bought #charged #committee #constitution

It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are. ↗

— George Michael

#families #kids #late #only #really

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs. ↗

— Henry Miller

#according #act #beliefs #distinguishes #few

In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#immense #italy #losing #reverse #seen

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#cannot #care #cure #follies #i

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#changes #differentiation #eminently #exists #god

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world. ↗

— Susan Lieberman

#confusing #confusion #counter #define #family