#oil

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#burns #cannot #endure #fed #flame

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#applies #does #existence #go #hidden

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#artist #culture #field #frequently #i

Golf is a good walk spoiled. ↗

— Mark Twain

#golf #good #spoiled #walk

Light is the task where many share the toil. ↗

— Homer

#many #share #task #toil #where

I coiled my empty straw wrapper around like a snake. Then I bit it before it could bite me. My love is as dangerous as my drinking habits.
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— Jarod Kintz

#coil #danger #dangerous #drink #drinking

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. ↗

— Josh Billings

#dreadful #easy #enough #give #like

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#happy #happy childhood #life #many #promising

Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money. ↗

— Joey Bishop

#cash register #find #gas #gas station #go

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence. ↗

— George Byron

#existence #had #i #known #lord