#verb

Lady Wisdom will be your close friend; and Brother Knowledge will be your pleasant companion. ↗

— Anonymous

#knowledge #proverbs #scripture #wisdom #scripture

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#criticism #memory #verbal-abuse #words #ignorance

Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet. ↗

— Daniel Handler

#daniel-handler #math

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#philosophy #proverb #philosophy

Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage) ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#marriage

The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#proverb #buddhism

For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#even #four #hate #i #kinds

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late? ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#form #late #never #prefer #proverb

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#drawn #experience #i #i believe #many

I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#audible #been #delay #ear #harmonics