“They also swear who only stand and wait.”

It is my plan to create a city that is direct and simple… To leave out all that is ugly, to eliminate the unnecessary, and to give Florida and the nation a resort city as perfect as study and ideals can make it.

God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.

Never call a man a fool; borrow from him

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

Poets are born, not paid.

Where there’s a will, there’s a lawsuit.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

I don’t know how to spell it and I’m not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I’ll stop you when…Hello?

There are three things that are not to be credited: a woman when she weeps, a merchant when he swears, nor a drunkard when he prays.

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.

I swear to you, patch, to take your love and cherish it. And in return, to give you my body and my hearteverything i possess, i give to you. I am yours. Wholly and completely. Love me. Protect me. Fulfill me. And i promise to do the same. ~ nora + patch

Patch’s eyes were slate black, darker than a million secrets stacked on top of each other. He dropped his gaze to the ring in his hand, turning it over slowly. “swear you’ll never stop loving me,” i whispered. Ever so slightly, he nodded.

I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.

You don’t have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they’re not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.