"One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys."
Holly Black
"How few are our real wants and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable."
Julius Charles Hare
"The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."
Nadine Gordimer
"It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other."
Hermann Bondi
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."
Edmund Burke
"Qualsiasi uomo notevole, chiunque cioè non appartenga a quei 5/6 dell'umanità dotati tanto miseramente dalla natura, rimarrà dopo I quarant'anni difficilmente esente da una certa traccia di misantropia."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar."
Michael Bassey Johnson
"Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading."
Henry David Thoreau
"Wisdom justifies a person in the face of any opposition."
Sunday Adelaja
"Appreciation and enjoyment of the creatures are the hallmark of God's dominion and therefore the standard by which our own attempt to exercise dominion must be judged."
Ellen F. Davis
"When a unicorn is slain, men have destroyed again the image of beauty that they seek."
Nicholas Stuart Gray
"Your treasure chest is your mind."
not your gold mine.
"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it."
Walter Colton
"Enriched vocabularies someone had (and used) are produced by a boundless wondrous mind. Sometime with a non mediocre experience also."
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