#thing

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#farthing #having #knows #lost #vice

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#believe #decided #done #eternal #everything

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything. ↗

— Voltaire

#bore #everything #secret #tell

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ↗

— Voltaire

#eating #god #had #made #more

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out. ↗

— Voltaire

#best way #boring #leave #nothing #out

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext. ↗

— Voltaire

#pretext #serves #wicked

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#close #edge #going #i #i can

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#alone #although #answer #bother #care

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#bitter #could #disappointment #exists #laughter

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#beware #finds #hard #himself #learn