#old

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#able #age #ask #believe #converse

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#bray #breath #deep #deep breath #heart

I like gettin' old. ↗

— Patti Smith

#i #like #old

Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person." "I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition." Sarissa said. "It is today. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #harry-dresden

I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#food #goes #households #i #purists

This is the woman I'm t' marry! Where have ye been all me life, me love?" And without a blink, I replied, "Don't start with me, ye scoundrel! If ye come with an empty purse, ye can leave now, fer I'd rather be unwed than unfed. ↗

— Karen Hawkins

#life

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#each #him #himself #life #look

If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that. ↗

— John Robinson

#board #going #hold #how #know

On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drinnk between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#humour #science-fiction #science

Children I implore you get out of the burning house now three carts wait outside to save you from a homeless life relax in the village square before the sky everything's empty no direction is better or worse east is just as good as west those who know the meaning of this are free to go where they want ↗

— Han-shan

#old-songs #transcendence #life