#ny

I want my children to appreciate prosperity, so on their birthdays they bathe with their weight in gold. When they get out of the tub, I check the displacement level and mark their growth rate. ↗

— Bauvard

#growth #humor #wealth #funny

And I know how many DJ pools have grown and I know how DJing has grown in the overall, but that was the technical side of it to me. DJs were rolling around, looking for stuff to buy and looking to see what was in the store when they get there. ↗

— Jam Master Jay

#buy #dj #djs #get #grown

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me. ↗

— Joseph Jefferson

#am #anything #cannot #everything #i

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#country #existence #hope #into #like

Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I understand it, is always specific. Trying to love all of humanity may be a worthy endeavor, but, in a funny way, it keeps the focus on the self, on the self’s own moral or spiritual well-being. Whereas, to love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#humanity #love #funny

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#always #any #complain #determine #doing

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#altar #eternal #every #form #god

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#dawn #day #enlighten #evil #generally

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#admit #any #bow #i #inquiry

I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#carefully #i #left-wing #looks #organization