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Piteous human insecurities make the world go round. ↗

— Thanos Grigoriou

#humor #insecurity #humor

Kill all the prisoners, because they’re costing us too much money. Wait! No, kill all the politicians, because they’re spending too much money. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#kill #money #politicians #politics #prisoners

Charlotte Palmer is no sillier than Harriet Smith; and yet, how intolerable we should find it to see and hear as much of Charlotte as we do of Harriet! And would Miss Bates have been endurable if she had been presented in the mood and manners of Sense and Sensibility? ↗

— Mary Lascelles

#jane-austen #sense-and-sensibility #art

My queendom for a coffee! ↗

— Chris Lange

#humor

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#poetry #art

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#angry #arrested #because #before #everyone

Can you imagine a world without men? There'd be no crime, and lots of fat happy women. ↗

— Nicole Hollander

#men-and-women #imagination

Ask , and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth! ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#prayer #religious #inspirational

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority. ↗

— George Bancroft

#best #development #few #free #government

To lead a human life, a man must have a notion of himself as having a past and a future. ↗

— Mary Warnock

#imagination