#ak

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. ↗

— Voltaire

#excellence #make #others #our #own

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#about #almost #astrology #because #best

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. ↗

— Voltaire

#defects #ends #makes #making #men

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved. ↗

— Voltaire

#between #deceive #distinguish #must #reserved

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly. ↗

— Voltaire

#cannot #oblige #speak #we cannot

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#class #country #discover #high #high school

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#beings #cancer #communities #cure #eliminate

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#cheque #dress #good #here #i

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. ↗

— Bernard De Voto

#men #name #nerves #only #pessimism

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#full #good #good stories #got #history