#your

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#him #idiot #kill #opponent #scoundrel

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. ↗

— Robert Frost

#before #care #dies #horse #life

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#being #consensus #had #hear #other

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#drag #keep #level #never #them

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#ballet #ballet dancer #dancer #farm #good

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#harder #more #opposite #parents #quickly

You can only really judge yourself in comparison to other people. How bad you are, but you're not as bad as someone else. So it's degrees of losing. ↗

— John Cusack

#comparison #degrees #else #how #judge

Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world. ↗

— Ice Cube

#going #important #important things #more #neighborhood

Your love to me was like an unread book. ↗

— Countee Cullen

#like #love #me #our love #unread

When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories. ↗

— Jared Leto

#direct #direct contact #fans #hear #kinds