#upright

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again. ↗

— Pam Brown

#better #cat #conscience #down #get

If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it. ↗

— Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak

#clinks #earth #eyes #fame #flee

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune. ↗

— Aeschylus

#gods #man #mark #misfortune #rail

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. ↗

— Aesop

#bending #force #had #little #over

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#conscience #fault #how #little #sting

They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly. ↗

— Rick Barry

#flat #flawed #fundamentally #incorrectly #just

Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers. ↗

— Jimmy Griffin

#acoustic guitar #bass #dorsey #fabulous #guitar

So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#box #calf #canvas #cow #fastened

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand. ↗

— Benny Hill

#like #pianos #upright

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#baseness #brutality #comrades #encountered #frankness