#sg

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ↗

— Irv Kupcinet

#day #diet #new #optimist #person

I'm thankful for every moment. ↗

— Al Green

#every #i #moment #thankful

At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person. ↗

— Tim Duncan

#clown #disguised #i #i am #myself

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race. ↗

— Hesiod

#end #justice #over #prevails #race

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#beauty #coercion #even #form #freedom

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years. ↗

— Juvenal

#disgraceful #ever #greatest #ignore #mind

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. ↗

— Juvenal

#frequently #most #our #vices #virtues

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#art #becomes #beyond #boundaries #breaking

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#becomes #death #disgrace #duty #everything

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#alone #anything #center #detached #fashions