#rely

The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#lands #longer #may #moon #nothing

The whole - it's the economy's bad. It's bad for everybody. I have my own comedy club. I opened it three years ago in a horrible economy. I created jobs. And we just started breaking even after a year and a half, barely. For that entire time, I have had to pay the difference of what we owe in rent and taxes and everything out of my own pocket. ↗

— Jon Lovitz

#ago #bad #barely #breaking #club

Very rarely does food enhance the conversation. If the food is really good, there'll be much less conversation because you'd be concentrating too much on the food. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#concentrating #conversation #does #enhance #food

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#conceal #game #like #our #play

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#covered #day #had #hear #i

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#because #breathing #conversation #having #like

To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#luck #merely #skill #soldier #word

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#destroyed #done #either #feared #greatly

I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men. ↗

— Agnes Macphail

#believe #entirely #future #hands #home

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#die #helps #know #knowledge #merely