#wit

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#ankle #chain #end #fastened #fellow

The soul that is within me no man can degrade. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#man #me #soul #within

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely. ↗

— Rita Dove

#book #choose #entirely #feeling #go

-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful." -"It was stupid. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#comedy #comical #funny #humor #humorous

L.A. I could live without. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#i #live #without

I've set aside a nice chunk of my advertising revenue each month for giveaways, like a KitchenAid mixer. I like buying them for the audience, because without the audience I wouldn't have the blog or the revenue in the first place. ↗

— Ree Drummond

#aside #audience #because #blog #buying

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within. ↗

— William Drummond

#art #part #really #study #thee

But love's a malady without a cure. ↗

— John Dryden

#cure #malady #without

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. ↗

— John Dryden

#bounds #divide #great #madness #near

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within. ↗