#grin

Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#stealing #thieves #warning #sin

Ah! Comme une existence peut devenir orageuse entre les quatre murs d'une mansarde! L'ame umaine est une fée, elle métamorphose une paille en diamants; sous sa bageutte les palais anchantés éclosent comme les fleurs des champs sous les chauds inspirations du soleil. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#inspirational

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#beneath #crush #down #grinds #him

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#grin #keep #out #played #smile

I've got such a disgusting, wide, smug grin on my face all the time that my friends just want to slap me. I've never been so happy. ↗

— Holly Valance

#disgusting #face #friends #got #grin

Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why. ↗

— George Thorogood

#call #chagrin #day #decided #doing

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#conclusions #facts #grinding #i #i am

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#collections #facts #general #grinding #kind

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#law #men #poor #rich #rich men

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will. ↗

— James Thomson

#forever #good #grinds #heart #ill