#si

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#expenditure #found #gratification #lavish #mere

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#jars #music #out #soul #tune

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#always #breeds #danger #delay #great

The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#boring #coded #computers #facebook #hard

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#giants #look #pray #sir #things

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#bent #bow #cannot #frailty #human

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#benefit #brag #draw #expressing #him

It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#bound #especially #i #incredible #library

Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples. ↗

— Graham Chapman

#dressing #even #ladies #old #our

Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of and unimagined? ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#education #information-literacy #information-management #learning #literacy