#pi

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it. ↗

— George Byron

#any #confirms #day #every #every day

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations. ↗

— Lord Byron

#because #friends #generally #indeed #jealousy

Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#because #best #clear #creative #fleeting

Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the prize of the happiness that will come. Even when the Death Railway reduced us to little more than animals, humanity in the shape of our saintly medical officers triumphed over barbarism. Remember, while it always seems darkest before the dawn, perseverance pays off and the good times will return. ↗

— Alistair Urquhart

#memoir #military-history #world-war-ii #death

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#disposal #generous #giveth #happiness #happy

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#building #consists #conversation #man #observation

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#compass #ever #found #happiness #immediately

I feel I should be doing stupid stuff, but I'm not going to. ↗

— Scott Caan

#feel #going #i #i feel #should

Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is. ↗

— Vince Cable

#challenge #class #explain #government #how

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. ↗

— Ryan Cabrera

#better #had #men #out #pink