Quotes · Skopia

18 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Place·West Midlands✕clear

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra just for you.

1971

★ 1.8

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Be Merry Friends · 1580

★ 1.9

Essay · Political literature

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in.

William Shenstone

1764

★ 3.5

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

Jerome K. Jerome

1889

★ 3.5

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Jerome K. Jerome

1886

★ 3.5

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome K. Jerome

1889

★ 3.5

What are days for? Days are where we live.

1964

★ 3.5

Many hands make light warke.

Proverbs (Heywood) · 1580

★ 3.7

Three may keepe counsayle, if two be away.

Proverbs (Heywood) · 1580

★ 3.7

You cannot see the wood for trees.

Proverbs (Heywood) · 1580

★ 3.7

Beggars should be no choosers.

Proverbs (Heywood) · 1580

★ 3.7

"Nothing-so it seems to me," said the stranger, "is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life... The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of—of things longer."

Jerome K. Jerome

1908

★ 5.0

It is always the best policy to speak the truth—unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Jerome K. Jerome

1892

★ 5.2

And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catche the burdes.

Proverbs (Heywood) · 1580

★ 5.3

Rome was not built in one day.

Proverbs (Heywood) · 1580

★ 5.4

Looke ere ye leape.

Proverbs (Heywood) · 1580

★ 5.4

Haste maketh waste.

Proverbs (Heywood) · 1580

★ 5.4

When the Sunne shineth make hay.

Proverbs (Heywood) · 1580

★ 5.4