#paradise

The only paradise is paradise lost. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#only #paradise

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then? ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#aye #been #could #dream #flower

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#gone #government #governments #interests #other

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#book #down #hard #lost #once

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#bird #cannot #catch #hen #paradise

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#bird #cannot #catch #hen #paradise

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#discontent #dogs #evil #jealousy #know

For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#big #big government #canada #cost #government

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#could #desired #few #happiness #large

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. ↗

— George Santayana

#eccentricity #graphic #graphic design #heresy #hobbies