#verbs

I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#am #artist #being #i #i am

Short cuts make long delays. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#life-lesson #pippin #proverbs #shortcuts #life

many women do noble things, but you surpass them all. charm is deceptive, beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised ↗

— Anonymous

#proverbs #scripture #spiritual #beauty

All the deaths are dead for nothing but you're not dead at all. ↗

— Daniel Handler

#death

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

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

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

This too shall pass... ↗

— Anonymous

#proverbs #bible

Lady Wisdom will be your close friend; and Brother Knowledge will be your pleasant companion. ↗

— Anonymous

#knowledge #proverbs #scripture #wisdom #scripture