#tribute

To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#misattributed #men

If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#misattributed-to-dorothy-parker #money

Treason is a charge invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers. ↗

— Sherman Edwards

#music

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#growing-up #wilhelm-stekel #die

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#misattributed #nobility #character

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#bad-reviews #book #humorist #wit #bad

If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#best #worst #hell

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#wisdom #destiny

For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#cast #contribute #earth #gladness #heaven

For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#misattributed-abraham-lincoln #humor