#wit

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#become #change #economy #happen #help

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#admire #desiring #secret #without

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that? ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#bounds #children #die #how #instant

Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely. ↗

— Lane Evans

#allies #along #around #boldly #brave

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#himself #his #must #painter #paintings

I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself. ↗

— Linda Evans

#beautiful #beautiful women #go #i #longed

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other. ↗

— Oliver Evans

#any #communication #each #frequently #happens

Liverpool without European football is like a banquet without wine. ↗

— Roy Evans

#european #football #like #liverpool #wine

In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction. ↗

— Edward Everett

#conformity #designs #determined #direction #disastrous

Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#before #clothes #i #i think #like