#pi

The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#despises #diverted #entertain #fellows #i

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. ↗

— Edwin Way Teale

#between #difference #plus #spider #telephone

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#compared #dream #life #our #right

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#despise #infirmities #most #our #savage

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#his #ignorance #man #pillow #rest

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#edge #eyes #feet #flickering #happiness

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#everyone #grasp #paper #pencil #piece

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#few #initiated #know #only #owner

I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management. ↗

— Joe Montana

#champion #fund #funds #guys #harris

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death. ↗

— Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu

#death #his #man #should #weeping