"Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin."

-- Allan Pinkerton

#Fate Quotes #Law Quotes #Punishment Quotes

“One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.”
“Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.”
“Every day I go forth to seek my identity, feeling greatly blessed by the things I don't find it in.”
“The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.”
“Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates. So said Maria. But too long in solitude she'd dwelt, And too long her thoughts had felt Their strength. So when the man drew near, Out popped her thoughts and covered him with fear. Poor Maria! Better that she had kept her thoughts on a chain, For now she's alone again and all in pain; She sighs for the man that went and the thoughts that stay To trouble her dreams by night and her dreams by day.”

Source : Stevie Smith (2015). “Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith”, p.707, Faber & Faber
“Myself, I'm a pothead. It's no secret. Everyone knows that. I go on the road and forget everything else”
“My baby is weird man... when he get mad, he gets in the oven.”
“Strew your gladness on earth's bed, So be merry, so be dead.”

Source : Charles Hamilton Sorley (1978). “The poems and selected letters of Charles Hamilton Sorley”

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