#versa

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#universal-truths #inspirational

The sea is the universal sewer. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#sewer #universal

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#lessons #life #mother #phyllis-mcginley #understand

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. ↗

— William Law

#alone #christianity #conforming #devotion #enjoyments

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#versa #vice #vice versa #virtue

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#almost #bankruptcy #brought #check #consumes

Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And it's true, wherever you go. ↗

— Benh Zeitlin

#me #movies #once #passport #someone

A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

#available #eliminated #ensuring #health #health insurance

Freedom is a universal value. ↗

— Jan Peter Balkenende

#universal #value

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it. ↗

— Mary Ritter Beard

#energy #expression #hunger #life #narrowly