#palace

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#being #built #consists #ground #having

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#churches #cottage #easy #good #had

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior. ↗

— William Shenstone

#his #hope #hut #man #most

I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace. ↗

— Martin Short

#family #hotel #i #me #palace

For one thing, everyone there is so clever. Do they think me dull? Perhaps I should assure them that our goats enjoyed listening to me for hours on end. I am certain their bleats meant "Do go on, Miri, darling. You are immensely entertaining." Your immensely entertaining sister, Miri ↗

— Shannon Hale

#palace-of-stone #sister #funny

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#court #hard #like #marble #palace

All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that. ↗

— Paul Auster

#children #love #moon #palace #love

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. ↗

— Francois Mauriac

#few #great #men #never #occupies

It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins. ↗

— Buenaventura Durruti

#america #better #build #built #cities

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. ↗

— Horace

#both #cultivates #envy #golden #hovel