#mo

The outer garments of to-day will become the under-clothes of some destined to-morrow, and centuries hence a man found walking on the public highways dressed as you are will be arrested by the police for shocking the sense of propriety of the community, and so on. It will go on and on until you will find human beings everywhere decked out in layer after layer of clothes until he or she has lost all semblance to that beautiful thing that an all-wise Providence has designed us to be. ↗

— John Kendrick Bangs

#humor #beauty

The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the human beings were quiet and trusting and beautiful. They shared. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#anti-war-movement #war #beauty

Venice she is like the beautiful cortigiana—the courtesan—who has”—Zeggio frowned, searching for the phrase he wanted—“dropped on the hours of trouble.” “Fallen on hard times,” James said. “Fallen on hard times,” Zeggio repeated. He murmured the phrase to himself a few times. “I see. The same but not the same. ↗

— Loretta Chase

#beauty

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#life #more #pain #sharper

I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#anymore #changed #come #daily #daily life

The bonds of friendship dwindle with age, Oliver. But a little blackmail lasts forever. ↗

— Stephen Hunt

#friendship #humor #age

Because I hate the ocean, theme parks and airplanes, talking with strangers, waiting in line. I'm through with these pills that make me sit still, are you feeling fine? Yes, I feel just fine. ↗

— Motion City Soundtrack

#love #motion-city-soundtrack #music #love

Can you imagine the reaction of a British tabloid newspaper if they found a small school in rural England hosting a party like this? A party? In a school? With children present? Where marijuana is openly smoked? And comdoms are given away at the door?Imagine the headlines! How much would the Daily Mail hate this? How much would the Daily Mail love to hate this?! ↗

— Dave Gorman

#england #humor #parties #imagination

Who thinks to interview their own mother? As a self-fixated teen, I never imagined that she had an actual personal history. To my young eyes, she was Source of Cash Obsessed With De-Cluttering ↗

— Jancee Dunn

#mother #teen #imagination

Don't you find it strange that your mother would leave you?' Becky said. 'I can't imagine my other leaving me.' I'd never thought of it like that before. 'I don't think she knew what else to do. ↗

— Belinda Jeffrey

#mother #imagination