#ture

I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!" said Fili. "My tub was full of ut. To smell apples everlastingly when you can scarcely move and are cold and sick with hunger is maddening. I could eat anything in the wide world now for hours on end - but not an apple! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#fantasy #humor #humor

After 30 years of marriage, isn’t it amazing when you look at your partner sound asleep next to you and think they've still got potential. ↗

— Kaylin McFarren

#humor #humor

I try to keep in mind” I recite dryly as I run the front sight of my pistol over his face, “that my life is only as significant, as I am to the lives of others.” He’s sobbing and won’t look up from the floor so I lean close to his ear and ask softly, “Would you say that I’m significant to your life? ↗

— Dennis Sharpe

#dark-humor #torture #humor

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#humor #humour #jokes #humor

A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don't later fray. ↗

— Marcia Carrington

#habits #human-nature #humor #morning #humor

There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future. ↗

— Dru Pagliassotti

#future #humor #past #reputation #romance

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age ↗

— Isaac Newton

#philosophy #physics #science #stars #age

Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#business

Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death. ↗

— Neil Postman

#social-commentary #sociology #business

Being an architect isn't only about construction, it's about creating wide spaces with small spaces. ↗

— Yannick Heywang

#architecture #build #building #construction #create