#paradise

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#like #look #miserable #more #nothing

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#marvel #nation #nothing #offer #once

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise. ↗

— Frank Langella

#fantasy #her #horse #man #off

The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#heart #man #paradise #speak

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. ↗

— Jean Paul

#only #out #paradise #recollection #turned

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

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

We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#base #island #key #lived #me