#ros

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. ↗

— Luigi Barzini

#chefs #composed #dainty #deserted #devour

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving. ↗

— Cyrano de Bergerac

#dot #i #kiss #loving #over

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. ↗

— Plutarch

#balance #friends #just #only #prosperity

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity. ↗

— Plutarch

#direct #easily #harder #man #managed

I have a big personality, and I think big personality plus blond hair makes me come across as glib. With dark hair, people look at your face more. Before, it was all about the hair. ↗

— Brooke Burns

#across #before #big #blond #blond hair

No cross no crown. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#crown

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#better #better world #bringing #comfortable #decay

All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#done #drains #lunch #makeup #prosthetic

Borrowing and spending is not the way to prosperity. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#prosperity #spending #way

I don't want to lead. Never have. Some people might consider such a trait as a weakness, but I don't. Knowing your own strengths and weaknesses takes a lot of soul searching and honesty--something not everyone will take the time to explore. Doing so might reveal things they'd rather leave undiscovered. ↗

— C.J. Ellisson

#leadership #wisdom #leadership