#thou

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste. ↗

— Voltaire

#books #fame #independent-thought #judgment #opinions

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#barbarism #between #civilization #country #decadence

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#deaths #die #honor #ten #than

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#bashfulness #mere #merit #without

‎All my stupid little thoughts beget stupid little thoughts, rampantly speculating every possible outcome of every possible situation until they're all done to death and none of them could ever be true. ↗

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

#death

I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though. ↗

— Mickey Gilley

#airlines #had #i #lot #money

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#blessed #blessing #enjoy #memory #must

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#criticized #having #i #in the past #many

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker. ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#better #bomb #bombs #cartoonist #cartoons

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. ↗

— James Allen

#bear #fruit #good #good thoughts #thoughts