#take

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk. ↗

— Epictetus

#drunkard #glasses #more #takes #than

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down. ↗

— Charles Adams

#bring #catastrophe #create #down #expediency

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#deeply #look #love #many #men

My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#day #even #future #i #me

When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#breath #get #intake #moving #something

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#courage #expedition #how #i #i think

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#closer #distance #greater #look #looks

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there. ↗

— Ram Dass

#bus #detroit #get #take #you

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. ↗

— Josh Billings

#imagination #lots #memory #mistake #people

Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance. ↗

— Max Bill

#beauty #conjectures #creating #embody #far