#there

As a kid I watched television 24 hours a day and loved every minute of it. The two shows that always make me laugh and are therefore my favourites are The Dick Van Dyke Show and Fawlty Towers. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#day #dick van dyke #dyke #every #favourites

The Biblical world view sees Earth and its ecosystems as the effect of a wise God's creation and... therefore robust, resilient, and self-regulating, like the product of any good engineer. ↗

— Christopher Monckton

#creation #earth #ecosystems #effect #engineer

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#franks #history #netherlands #the history of #therefore

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#also #because #bothered #home #man

Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#avoiding #campaigns #changes #conducted #difficult

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. ↗

— John Milton

#character #deeds #himself #his #man

Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#beginning #beings #either #ever #soon

On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience. ↗

— Maria Monk

#confirmed #conscience #day #extremely #i

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#duties #felt #first #force #known

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#becomes #done #especially #going #hold