#mos

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader. ↗

— James Buchan

#authors #cutting #disgust #effects #favourite

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#kiss #kissing #love #most #mothers

I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops. ↗

— Zola Budd

#come #cows #drink #home #i

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#after #almost #centuries #christ #countries

Humor is the most engaging cowardice. ↗

— Robert Frost

#engaging #humor #most

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. ↗

— Luis Bunuel

#ever #exquisite #form #invented #known

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#cent #fifteen #greatest #less #most

The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do. ↗

— Candace Cameron Bure

#daughter #family #first #had #i

And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#chi #every #his #imprint #just

As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#better place #dangerous #dangerous place #duller #ideas