#irs

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#champagne #end #great #great love #love

I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#chance #evil #first #had #i

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#done #first #i #million #never

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. ↗

— Aristotle

#best #drunken #life #neither #nor

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#begin #between #came #day #downstairs

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. ↗

— Richard Armour

#first #i #retired #then #thought

Middle -age is the time of life, that a man first notices - in his wife. ↗

— Richard Armour

#his #life #man #middle #notices

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories. ↗

— Plato

#first #himself #man #noblest #victories

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#called #escape #first #first time #home

The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#before #christ #confucius #first #golden