#wit

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#continues #intellectual #left #lives #long

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#forty #judgment #reigns #thirty #twenty

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#bare #completely #debate #divide #flesh

Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#burned #daughters #deep #dna #fear

I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why. ↗

— Douglas Dunn

#i #knowing #liked #muir #quite

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. ↗

— Ariel Durant

#conquered #destroyed #great #itself #until

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#being #go #into #long #rebel

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#into #our #our world #tolerance #turns

Yoga has trimmed my body in a way that the gym never could. I used to be a gym rat, but I switched to yoga and am now almost 10 pounds lighter. One important thing I've gotten from yoga is breathing. When I'm cooking, the top part of my body collapses down. It cuts off my diaphragm. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#am #body #breathing #collapses #cooking

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#thought #wait #without #you