#sence

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#deeper #essence #far #head #heart

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#crutches #hours #love #our #wings

Advertising is the very essence of democracy. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#democracy #essence #very

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bequeathed #charities #essence #even #nothing

These humiliations are the essence of the game. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#game #humiliations #these

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#course #did #endlessly #essence #friends

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ↗

— William Cowper

#death #despair #frustrates #hope #love

In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems. ↗

— Lindsay Davenport

#back #come #great #history #long

My presence speaks volumes before I say a word. ↗

— Mos Def

#i #presence #say #speaks #volumes

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#essence #indispensable #luminous #me #nature