#non

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #humor #making-love #plainness #women

To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#nonsense #rights #say #turkey #violated

if my name was on a serious work like this it would never get fair treatment. They would all say I had tried to be funny and failed. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#weeds #funny

I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might say in a retirement home.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#age #cannibal #cannibalism #death #food

Yet none use their words more recklessly than the strong, who have not been sobered by the rebuffs and uncertainties of life. ↗

— George A. Smith

#life #more #none #recklessly #sobered

Katar," said Britta, "I thought you would want to stay with your friends from home while they were here, so I had your things moved from your room in the delegates' wing." "You can have my things brought in too," said Peder, throwing himself onto the nearest bed. He sighed as he sank into the soft mattress and rolled onto his side. "Um... I don't think boys are-" Britta began. "Don't you mind me!" Peder pulled a blanket over his head. Miri didn't know how he could even pretend to fall asleep. She could barely keep from pacing. "Don't worry, Britta," said Esa. "We'll kick him out before night. Off to your fancy apprenticeship, big brother." She nudged Peder's shape under the blanket. Peder made an exaggerated snoring noise. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#esa #hale #humor #katar #miri

Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved. ↗

— Patrick White

#already #anonymous #another #could #decided

... by treating nature as exterior and inferior to humans we saw no harm to ourselves in polluting the soil, the plants, the air and the water. We did not notice the effect of our pollution on whatever walked over it, ran across it, climbed up it, flew through it, or swam in it. Now we notice that harming other constituents of our planetary system brings harm to ourselves. ↗

— Betty Jean Craige

#home

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#always #before #everything #fool #lot

Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#nonsense