#ma

I may be no better, but at least I am different. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#better #different #i #i am #least

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. ↗

— John Dennis

#make #man #pick #pocket #pun

A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#how #knows #man #never #say

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing. ↗

— Bret Harte

#bush #certainty #hand #may #sing

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy. ↗

— Anita Desai

#best #could #doing #ever #first

I did not plan to make the Cube. ↗

— Erno Rubik

#did #i #make #plan

Then trust me there's nothing like drinking, So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave. ↗

— Charles Dibdin

#drinking #grave #keeps #like #makes

Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them both together, and set them over so soft a fire, that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands. ↗

— Kenelm Digby

#break #endure #every #fire #gallon

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there. ↗

— Jim Dine

#emotion #faith #figure #how #i

Civilization is the making of civil persons. ↗

— John Ruskin

#civilization #making #persons