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book beer words-of-wisdom
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. Charles Dickens
book night men
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.
book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
book knowledge men
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. Charles Caleb Colton
book reading advice
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
book merit lovers
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
book reading writing
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book reading writing
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
book writing companion
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
tree shade way
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
tree world this-world
We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. Alan Watts
tree sun bigs
When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun. Chinua Achebe
tree lizards praise
The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
tree remember sometimes
It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them. David Hockney
tree tongue shows
Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . . William Shakespeare
tree bent grows
As the tree is bent, so it will grow. Bill O'Reilly
tree spheres earth
Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth. Bill Nye
tree storm violent
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers? Bertolt Brecht
sometimes failing should
Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes. Charles Stewart Parnell
sometimes tragic situation
Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens. David Hyde Pierce
sometimes
Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected. Benedict Cumberbatch
sometimes said
Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth. Deb Caletti
sometimes clean mess
Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.
sometimes commentary
No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary. Kurt Vonnegut
sometimes property
Sometimes the best properties aren't necessarily the biggest properties. Mark Cuban
sometimes jerk
I act like a jerk sometimes. Bill Murray
sometimes more-to-life surviving
There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get Charles de Lint