#w

The rich old men start the wars, but it’s the poor young men who portend them. If they didn't get old and rich, some excuse might have to be found to launch invasions. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #old-age #poverty #war #wealth

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues.... ↗

— George Orwell

#politics #age

Nobody can open the gates of death without closing them again after him. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#death

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you? ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#chaos #wisdom #youth #age

Oh how the candles will be lit and the wood of worm burn in a fiery dust. For on all Hallow's Eve will the spirits come to play, and only the fruit of thy womb will satisfy their endless roaming. ↗

— Solange nicole

#hallows #new-age #solange #wicca-poem #age

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a happy bunch of chuckleheads. ↗

— William Styron

#age

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#been #bench #bringing #dock #down

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#always #among #breed #children #discipline

Any fool can write, we start learning it at school at the age of three.... ↗

— Pandora Poikilos

#learning #school #vp-shunt #writing #age

بومة عجوز تدلف متثاقلة لقفص وهي تشعر بالعيون تحملق فيها ↗

— Eman Herzallah

#cage #owl #age