#maturin

I sew his ears on from time to time, sure. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

#friendship #maturin #surgery #friendship

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

#patrick-o-brian #unexpected

As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself. ↗

— Troy Vincent

#always #get #learning #maturing #new

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#between #curiously #enough #experience #hopes

In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin. ↗

— Thorstein Heins

#always #because #darling #everybody #get

There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought. ↗

— Christine McVie

#band #been #bond #deal #feelings

The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league. ↗

— Cobi Jones

#better #doing #growing #i #i think

Come all you thoughtless young men, a warning take by me And never leave your happy homes to sail the raging sea. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

#aubreyad #master-and-commander #sea-shanty #the-far-side-of-the-world #home

You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating. ↗

— Tasha Alexander

#aging-well #fascinating #maturing #age

Since the sheets were half-flown the sails instantly split at the seams, the maintopsail shaking so furiously that the masthead must have gone had not Mowett, the bosun, Bonden, Warley the captain of the maintop and three of his men gone aloft, laid out on the ice-coated yard and cut the sail away close to the reefs. Warley was on the lee yardarm when the footrope gave way under him and he fell, plunging far clear of the side and instantly vanishing in the terrible sea. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

#aubreyad #master-and-commander #the-far-side-of-the-world #will-warley #men