#resemble

Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#go #her #how #i #knows

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#choice #huge #increasingly #intelligent #jail

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences. ↗

— Vince Cable

#aspect #balance #balance sheets #banking #banks

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. ↗

— George Gissing

#book #excellent #first #first time #friend

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#being #hears #knows #offers #only

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

#assumed #class #collective #different #different people

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#fluent #her #like #mother #only

No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints. ↗

— Charles Simeon

#man #measure #resemble #saints #scripture

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#beyond #committing #entertain #fortune #good

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#does #leg #machine #make #man