#olden

D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about. I didn't know what the hell to say. If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it. I'm sorry I told so many people about it. All I know about it is, I sort of miss everybody I told about. Even old Stradlater and Ackley, for instance. I think I even miss that goddam Maurice. It's funny. Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#ending-lines #holden-caulfield #funny

She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we wouldn't quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#change

You should be cuddling with her. I can’t believe I just said that. Cuddling makes me want to vomit a little, but apparently women like it. ↗

— Lexi Blake

#lexi-blake #the-men-with-the-golden-cuffs #men

And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun. ↗

— Roy Bean

#fall #golden #harvest #her #hills

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#damn #finish #give #goes #golden

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family. ↗

— Joachim du Bellay

#experienced #family #fine #golden #happy

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#born #custody #fond #i #i am

As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise. ↗

— Charlie Crist

#allergic #beholden #billionaires #bullies #compromise

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#beholden #congress #corporate #corporate interests #damaged

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. ↗

— Horace

#both #cultivates #envy #golden #hovel