Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.
—José Ortega y Gasset
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Sunday, October 06, 2024
Post #3250
Sunday, September 29, 2024
Sunday, May 26, 2024
Post #3231
...some of it's magic some of it's tragic but I had a good life all the way.
―Jimmy Buffett (He went to Paris)
Sunday, June 18, 2023
Sunday, January 22, 2023
Sunday, October 09, 2022
Post #3145
Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
—Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Sunday, July 31, 2022
Sunday, June 19, 2022
Post #3129
There is no more fatal blunder than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
―Henry David Thoreau
Sunday, May 29, 2022
Post #3126
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
—William Wordsworth
Sunday, May 09, 2021
Post #3071
Keep out of ruts; a rut is something which if traveled in too much, becomes a ditch.
—Arthur Guiterman
Thursday, December 31, 2020
Post #3052
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!
As though to breathe were life.
—Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sunday, November 15, 2020
Post #3045
Everything dies, baby, that's a fact, but maybe everything that dies someday comes back.
—Atlantic City (written by Bruce Springsteen performed by The Band)
Sunday, July 26, 2020
Sunday, June 07, 2020
Post #3022
The life of man is a journey ; a journey that must be travelled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.
—Oliver Goldsmith
Friday, October 25, 2019
Monday, February 11, 2019
Post #2761
Después de los cuarenta años la verdadera cara la tenemos en la nuca, mirando desesperadamente para atrás. (After forty years, the real face is on the back of the neck, looking desperately back.)
—Julio Cortázar
—Julio Cortázar
Friday, November 16, 2018
Friday, May 26, 2017
Post #2345
The life of man is the incessant walk of time wherein every moment is a step towards death. Even our growing to perfection is a progress to decay. Every thought we have is a sand running out of the glass of life.
—Owen Feltham
—Owen Feltham
Tuesday, May 02, 2017
Post #2327
Life will always be, to a large extent, what we ourselves make it. Each mind makes its own little world. The cheerful mind makes it pleasant, and the discontented mind makes it miserable. "My mind to me a kingdom is" applies alike to the peasant as to the monarch.
—Samuel Smiles
—Samuel Smiles
Friday, April 21, 2017
Post #2320
Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.
—Benjamin Franklin
—Benjamin Franklin
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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