Make yourself a boon companion to no one ; you will have less pleasure, and less pain.
—Martial
Showing posts with label independence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label independence. Show all posts
Sunday, September 28, 2025
Post #3301
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Post #3204
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
—Dorothy Canfield Fisher
—Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Wednesday, July 04, 2018
Post #2603
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Post #2494
For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.
—Bishop Berkeley
—Bishop Berkeley
Friday, September 09, 2016
Post #2160
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent so much as the smallness of his wants.
—William Cobbett
—William Cobbett
Friday, July 03, 2015
Post #1850
And since I’m well and on the bum again & aint got nothing else to
do, but roam, longfaced, the real America, with my unreal heart, here I
am eager and ready to be a big busted nose scullion or dishwasher on the
old scoff scow s’long as I can buy my next fancy shirt in a Hong Kong
haberdashery or wave a polo mallet in some old Singapore bar or play the
horses in Australian, it’s all the same to me as long as it can be
exciting and goes around the world.
—Jack Kerouac
—Jack Kerouac
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
- Native Texan · Navy Veteran · Various Scars and Tattoos · No Talent, but yet a Character