#no

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#how #insane #know #man #occasions

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#debt #economy #family #parents #family

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#easy #grave #hard #i #into

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#cork #i #inward #knocks #must

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#away #awhile #birds #bring #come

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#community #indispensable #out #poor #rich

I looked at Adrian’s eyes, beautiful, mesmerizing. Not human. I didn’t feel lonely at all. “You’ll take me places?” I asked. His answer was important, even though my decision was already made. “You can’t imagine where we’ll go.” He said, sincerely. ↗

— Amy Lane

#vampire #beauty

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#also #flatter #how #knows #slander

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

#because #being #failure #had #i

You know, I'm not big on conspiracy theory. It does really kind of get my blood going when I find out there really are conspiracies that actually happened. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

#big #blood #conspiracies #conspiracy #does