black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Related Topics

Argument Body Kindness Proud

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Creature Eat Food Kindness World
Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Different Eyes Money Value
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Custom Exception Habit Live Motivational
Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Beyond Feeling Grave Hope Leaving Life Love Myself Past Reach Survive Thinking
Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Fools Himself Life Song Wine Woman
Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Change Expectation Marriage Person
Bad husbands will make bad wives.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Husband Marriage One Liner Wife
In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Alone Friendship Herself Kind Parents
There is a skeleton in every house.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Bone Home
A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Bright Enough Eyes Flame Forget Life Man Possession Reward
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Argument Body Kindness Proud
Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Attach Better Endurance Fortune Life Love Man Smart Yourself
Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Jealous Regard Rival Strong Woman
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Fate Greatness Small Vanity Way Weakness Wisdom
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Goal Horizon Live Success Yourself
Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Admire Greatness Happiness Learning Life Right Spirit Worship

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes