#me

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

#men #old #old men #prove #should

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

#criticism #explain #exposition #justifiable #make

I like to be other people, not me. And when you're on the red carpet, it's like, 'Here's Tom Hardy.' I don't want to be me. That's why I play other people. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#hardy #here #i #like #me

I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction. ↗

— Godfrey Harold Hardy

#deal #five #four #great #great deal

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#always #change #changes #everything #except

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#entirely #fulfillment #hope #leaves #never

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#avoid #both #come #ear #enter

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#clear #common #pulse #remarkably #seemed

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#avoid #avoidance #evil #far #framed

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#avoid #avoidance #evil #far #framed