#lis

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#expense #flatterer #him #listens #lives

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#foreheads #fortune #give #luxury #read

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper. ↗

— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

#articles #chronicles #daily #engaged #ever

In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen. ↗

— Linda Vester

#challenges #faith #happen #i #kind

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. ↗

— Henry Ford

#accomplished #except #happiness #joy #realization

At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe. ↗

— John M. Ford

#am #different #establishment #evolution #i

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#counsel #easily #err #fool #foolish

I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#am #come #down #english #fluent

As though eavesdropping, the whistling wind refuses to speak above a whisper. The winding road is cut into the side of the mountain in such a way that it seems they are not making any progress; the walk down will require endurance. She looks up at the cluster of clouds which have been pencilled in neatly against the sky, and hopes it doesn’t rain. It occurs rapidly, a geisha brusquely folding shut her fan; the sun sets, and brilliant darkness replaces light. ↗

— Curtis Ackie

#dreams #magic-realism #surrealism #dreams

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#cruel #die #dogs #free #good