"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Emotional Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Tongue Quotes

“Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.”

Source : William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”
“They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed. I spend my life in examining things: I write down in the evening whatever I have remarked, what I have seen, and what I have heard in the day: every thing engages my attention, and every thing excites my wonder: I am like an infant, whose organs, as yet tender, are strongly affected by the slightest objects.”
“But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.”

Source : Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.63, Macmillan
“That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.”
“All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities.”
“Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.”

Source : William Cobbett (1820). “Cobbett's Political Register”, p.497
“I expect to win out there.”
“It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow for awhile, from hope, a gay and flourishing appearance. But time betrays their weakness, and they fall into ruin of themselves. For, as in structures of every kind, the lower parts should have the greatest firmness--so the grounds and principles of actions should be just and true.”

Source : Demosthenes (1756). “All the orations of Demosthenes, pronounced to excite the Athenians against Philip King of Macedon: Translated into English; digested and connected, so as to form a regular history of the progress of the Macedonian power: with notes historical and critical. By Thomas Leland, ...”, p.26

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