#mo

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#almost #author #bad #books #children

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#appointed #becoming #best #civilization #depends

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#lie #life #moderation #pleasures #ring

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#done #extensive #greater #his #knowing

Briston shakes his head in answer, and slowly walks over to the sword. He cautiously stretches out his hand, which I can see is shaking. "What are you doing." I ask, frightened. "I'm going to see what happens if I touch it." Briston continues to stretch his hand out slowly. "Briston don't. What if it, I don't know, sucks you inside?" Briston stops to give me a dubious look. "What? It could happen. Don't you remember Poltergeist? The little girl got sucked into the television. ↗

— Brandy Nacole

#broken-faith #emma #freak-out #humor #faith

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#contrary #earnest #error #more #often

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#inner #inner peace #measured #money #peace

The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think everybody on our team works hard towards keeping that goal. Time will tell if we're prepared or not. ↗

— Larry Dixon

#championship #everybody #goal #goes #hard

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#championships #motivate #ones #themselves #want

When I put some Tabasco on things, and there's really nothing in Tabasco, it's not bad for you in any way, so that's kind of become my substitute. Now you got to get used to a hot mouth, but that's okay. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#bad #become #get #got #hot