#ros

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#after #beautiful #daughters #far #habits

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#apt #error #men #prefer #prosperous

Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions. ↗

— Ernst Thalmann

#always #any #back #chest #collapsed

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat. ↗

— Robert Graves

#breed #cat #dogs #i #prose

Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#because #comes #idiot #interviews #thinks

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#many #prose #today #verses

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#human #increasing #longer #more #poverty

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. ↗

— Herodotus

#fortunes #man #men #prosper #same

Juliet had it easy; she never had to kill Romeo. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose #vampire-academy #sacrifice

A year. We'd known each other only a year, but we'd lived a lifetime in it. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose-hathaway