"The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology."

-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Expression Quotes

“I'd catch a punt naked, in the snow, in Buffalo, for a chance to play in the NFL.”
“To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.”

Source : Peter Calthorpe (2010). “Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change”, p.15, Island Press
“Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.”
“What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.”
“In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.”
“Our tree was so puny we used orthopedic bulbs.”
“And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those that have.”
“Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Richard Bellings (1724). “The works of the Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, kt. in prose and verse: In three volumes. ...”

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