in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)
He's such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him.
from the book "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontė
He's such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him.
All men are made one for another: either then teach them better, or bear with them.
When a man fell into his anecdotage, it was a sign for him to retire.
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
Persons without minds are like weeds that delight in good earth; they want to be amused by others, all the more because they are dull within.
There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
A lot of people, when they talk to me, I can't wait for them to shut up. Like, shut up. You're a moron. They have nothing to say, you know?
As for the passions and studies of the mind: avoid envy; anxious fears; anger fretting inwards; subtle and knotty inquisitions; joys and exhilarations in excess; sadness not communicated. Entertain hopes; mirth rather than joy; variety of delights, rather than surfeit of them; wonder and admiration, and therefore novelties; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature.