#multiply

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words. ↗

— Woody Allen

#fruitful #guy #him #hit #i

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#cares #catch #door #else #fire

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

#cares #enlargement #go #increase #multiply

The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#call #fear #garden #keep #mind

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#daily #falls #happiness #high #his

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#alive #another #city #creation #death

It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#going #keep #know #long #make

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#also #behold #communications #distribution #information

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros! ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#hundredfold #multiply #seek #something #tenfold

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. ↗

— Ovid

#grief #multiply #rages #strength #suppressed