"If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching."

-- Lord Chesterfield

#Hurt Quotes #Humor Quotes #Shining Quotes

“People--stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died.”
“I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.”
“Sometimes your friends take you ten steps backwards for every step you take forward. Sometimes misplaced loyalty ruins your destiny.”
“Your ideas come out of the way you conduct your life.”
“In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night of June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set On fishing up the moon.”

Source : Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”
“How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark." "A whale isn't a fish, Thursday." "A whale shark is--sort of." "All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish." "A crayfish isn't a fish." "A starfish, then." "Still not a fish." "This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.”
“And...I think that's what life is all about, actually, about children and flowers.”
“She hug me around my neck, say, "You're righter than Miss Taylor." I tear up then. My cup is spilling over. Those is new words to me.”

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