"Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write."

-- A. E. Housman

#Sarcastic Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.”
“I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.”
“God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.”
“But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.”

Source : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”
“When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.”
“I get really nervous if pigeons are flying around before shows. I can't stand them after one once flew in through my bathroom window and went for me while I was having a wee. That was enough. I think pigeons target me.”
“You obviously don't know what an Old Man of the Sea great wealth is. It is not a fat purse and time to spend it. Its owner finds himself beset on every side, at every hour, wherever he goes, by persistent pleaders, like beggars in Bombay, each demanding that he invest or give away part of his wealth. He becomes suspicious of honest friendship--indeed honest friendship is rarely offered him; those who could have been his friends are too fastidious to be jostled by beggars, too proud to risk being mistaken for one.”
“There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.”

Source : Titus Maccius Plautus (2012). “Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives”, p.492, tredition

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