#toil

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#ends #family #first #friends #gratification

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#care #down #flush #i #i care

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame. ↗

— Hesiod

#shame #source #toil

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#caught #contrary #death #drama #harmony

Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –" "Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet." "Great idea though, thanks, Mum. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#george-weasley #humor #molly-weasley #toilet #humor

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools. ↗

— William Alexander

#experience #fools #great #greatest #i

When someone follows you all the way to the shop and watches you buy toilet roll, you know your life has changed. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#changed #follows #know #life #roll

My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up. ↗

— Jessica Hahn

#down #flush #head #i #mother

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics. ↗

— Mary Ritter Beard

#below #continue #critics #enjoy #even

I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim. ↗

— Wilford Brimley

#behind #flush #get #go #high