#m

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ↗

— Margaret Young

#first #must #need #order #really

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule. You are puzzled because you cannot get over the idea that pleasures are only of the sense; but, child, a man who dies for his country dies because he likes it as surely as a man eats pickled cabbage because he likes it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#humor #life #pleasure #death

I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#feel #got #healthy #i #i feel

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#companions #days #faces #familiar #gone

New Year's Day is every man's birthday. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#day #every #man #new #year

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#animal #better #gaming #get #man

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#groans #hundred #laugh #market #worth

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#me #more #nothing #puzzles #space

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#gifts #gratitude #knack #nothing #people

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#ear #feather #intellect #laws #limit