#ore

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#ask #best #even #examinations #fool

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bodies #change #climate #customs #empty

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#friendship #holy #itself #made #more

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bad #crushes #deplore #kills #loss

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#less #little #more #much #relative

I just get the same stuff as I did before, but the price tag is much higher. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#did #get #higher #i #just

A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others. ↗

— Paul Valery

#man #more #others #secret #secrets

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#become #difficult #economic #isolated #like

It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more. ↗

— Ville Valo

#arts #away #bit #cool #existing

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#depart #found #i #intend #land