#uses

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. ↗

— Mark Twain

#character #conversation #habitually #learned #man

Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity. ↗

— Alcaeus

#canals #city #finely #houses #make

The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same. ↗

— Charles Mengel Allen

#board #human #more #motives #same

I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people. ↗

— Louie Anderson

#any #anybody #ashamed #did #done

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks. ↗

— Miriam Beard

#greeks #muses #only #professions #recently

Evil events from evil causes spring. ↗

— Aristophanes

#events #evil #spring

For this will cure him that is sick, and rouse him that is in dumps; one that has loved, it will remember of it; one that has not, it will instruct. For there was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see. But help me that God to write the passions of others; and while I write, keep me in my own right wits. ↗

— Longus

#depression #god #inspiration #instruction #love

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. ↗

— Julius Caesar

#events #importance #result #trivial #war

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage. ↗

— Mark Caine

#except #never #nothing #people #success

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. ↗

— William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

#arouses #else #hope #nothing #passion