#san

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#how #insane #know #man #occasions

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#away #awhile #birds #bring #come

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record. ↗

— Conway Twitty

#go #i #new #record #songs

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks. ↗

— Aisha Tyler

#celery #clothes #cool #giant #i

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#feared #four #hostile #more #newspapers

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. ↗

— John Berger

#becomes #connected #difficult #fond #glad

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things. ↗

— Robert Southey

#beams #body #bones #city #health

The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood? ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#domestic #find #just #livelihood #machines

I do think that Social Security reform needs to be bipartisan, and we are going to have to reach that in this debate at some time before we can find really meaningful reform. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#bipartisan #debate #find #going #i

I always sang, I always acted, I always played. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#always #i #i always #played #sang