#or

Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#balcony #bridges #certain #come #curve

A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper. ↗

— John Pym

#body #commonwealth #facility #keep #parliament

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#answers #asking #get #questions #worry

She would give them order. She would create constellations. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#create #give #order #she #them

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. ↗

— Pythagoras

#deal #few #great #great deal #hazard

Silence is better than unmeaning words. ↗

— Pythagoras

#silence #than #words

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. ↗

— Pythagoras

#few #great #great deal #little #many

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman. ↗

— Pythagoras

#created #darkness #evil #good #light

Oh please," Scout said."Don't take that tone with me. You know you'd love to have a minion. Someone at your beck and call. Someone to do your bidding. How many times have you said to yourself," Self, I need a unicorn to run errands and such? ↗

— Chloe Neill

#unicorn #funny

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#moments #moreover #mortal #mortal man #wise