#paradise

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it. ↗

— Callan McAuliffe

#fancy #hard #i #lost #paradise

The only paradise is paradise lost. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#only #paradise

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#bird #cannot #catch #hen #paradise

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#bird #cannot #catch #hen #paradise

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. ↗

— George Santayana

#eccentricity #graphic #graphic design #heresy #hobbies

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#good #paradise #philosophy #love

A book of verses underneath the bough A flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thou Beside me singing in the wilderness And wilderness is paradise now. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#love #paradise #poetry #love

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it. ↗

— Jules Renard

#heaven #paradise #existentialism

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#escape #eve #humor #paradise #sarcasm

Do the thing you love to do. Hank Williams died at the ripe old age of twentynine. Stevie Ray Vaughan at thirty-five. Jesus at thirtythree. Don’t think you’re special and the Lord’s gonna bless you with time. ↗

— Jill S. Alexander

#paradise #young-adult #young-love #age