#wit

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#die #how #indian #knew #live

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#around #author #barriers #beyond #formidable

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#conceive #impossible #intimately #liberty #make

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#golden #hid #hinges #inside #key

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#challenge #college #college education #depressing #education

Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#family #olympians #olympic #past #role

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#express #feeling #had #i #kind

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#baseness #before #cannot #cynicism #easy

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#carries #certain #dangers #itself #learn

I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak. ↗

— Verne Troyer

#across #being #challenge #get #good