#verb

They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again. ↗

— Bob Massie

#proverbs #war #home

Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#proverb #humor

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#proverb #inspirational

You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”. ↗

— John Lydgate

#proverb #inspirational

An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#afghanistan #folklore #proverbs #saying #sufis

To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#proverb #life

The second mouse gets the cheese!" - The Inimitable Terry Pratchett ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#mouse #proverb #retort #education

Booze makes brothers like no mothers ever do. ↗

— Killian McRae

#love

We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love. ↗

— Daniel Handler

#love

Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely, and at other times absurd, all this verbiage, these seemingly random consonants clattering on the string that is sound. ↗

— Rosie O'Donnell

#verbiage #words #love