#of

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#done #easy #forgive #least #like

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#asks #doubt #guide #hence #him

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#cop #draw #grandfather #heard #him

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#body #consider #day #drain #enough

Joining 'ER,' I felt like that kid who got the golden ticket in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' I've been offered chocolate bars all these years, but there had been no golden ticket. Just the stomachache that was called 'Jake in Progress.' ↗

— John Stamos

#been #called #charlie #chocolate #factory

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored. ↗

— David Byrne

#gets #ignored #life #lot #mundane

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#often #thing #time #waste #waste of time

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#forget #lincoln #most #politician #professional

What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#invite #lasting #lasting peace #measures #oppose

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. ↗

— George Byron

#butler #daughters #grow #husbands #off