#ran

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#crank #dream #him #his #like

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#foes #home #ignorance #incompetence #only

At fifty times the distance, you dispatched that ko-bold with three arrows to the neck. I’ve earned a trio to the chest. Seems you slapped him while you’re tickling me. You doona want to kill me, which is a good sign. Maybe this is your way of flirting? ↗

— Kresley Cole

#funny

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#every #freedom #himself #lived #tyrant

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#fun #get #insurance #life #life insurance

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#backs #branded #day #foreheads #give

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#borrow #foolish #ignorance #ignorance is bliss #neighbor

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#busy #busy life #carries #day #every

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#children #does #fathers #grandfather #grandson

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#interior #sea #sky #soul #spectacle