#met

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#first #him #intelligence #look #men

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you. ↗

— Herb Alpert

#back #come #felt #going #integrity

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength. ↗

— Ovid

#classics #greek #humans #intelligence #metamorphoses

What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is flat! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#intelligence

I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#commercials #had #hear #i #i remember

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. ↗

— Jack London

#meteor #life

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life. ↗

— Roger Caras

#dog #least #life #may #necessarily

the road is life ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#motto #life

Trust Emmett to find the joke in the destruction of my life. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#emmett #life

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else. ↗