"When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother."

-- Jean Ingelow

#Mother Quotes #Humble Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.”

Source : Alice Meynell (1925). “Essays”
“They may be a little more high brow than we are.”
“We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or even implausible, reason to discount environmental warnings, we will.”
“Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.”
“The earth is round, all the heavenly bodies are round; they all move on round or elliptical orbits. This same image of circular globe-shaped mini worlds orbiting around each other follows us right down to the microcosmos. We are even aroused by round forms in species propagation related eroticism. Why should I join the straying mass who want to make everything angular? I am going to pursue Galileo Galilei's philosophy: my world is also round.”
“As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished.”
“Complaining advertizes your fears.”
“To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.”

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