#rip

I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight. ↗

— Venerable Bede

#been #church #daily #delight #devoted

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler. ↗

— Plautus

#fault #feet #first #great #trips

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#does #down #keeping #lay #letters

People get really caught up in their own trips. ↗

— Max Cannon

#get #own #people #really #their

The cyclone had set the house down gently, very gently – for a cyclone—in the midst of a country of marvelous beauty. There were lovely patches of green sward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits. Banks of gorgeous flowers were on every hand, and birds with rare and brilliant plumage sang and fluttered in the trees and bushes. A little way off was a small brook, rushing and sparkling along between green banks, and murmuring in a voice very grateful to a little girl who had lived so long on the dry, gray prairies. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#description #fantasy #beauty

The one thing about Billie is he will snap and rip your head off if you point anything out at all other than how beautiful he is and how nice he looks today. ↗

— Tre Cool

#anything #beautiful #billie #head #how

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#everything #question #spoken #star #stripe

I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?' ↗

— Louis C. K.

#become #go #god #going #happened

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#doctrine #fundamental #gives #gospel #more

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#all things #father #feeling #revealed #ripens