Lady Astor to Winston Churchill: ''Winston, if you were my husband I would flavor your coffee with poison.''
Churchill: ''Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it.''
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Adams
US author, autobiographer, & historian (1838 - 1918)
Both dogs, at separate times, walk into the same room. One comes out wagging his tail while the other comes out growling.
A woman watching this goes into the room to see what could possibly make one dog so happy and the other so mad. To her surprise she finds a room filled with mirrors.
The happy dog found a thousand happy dogs looking back at him while the angry dog saw only angry dogs growling back at him. What you see in the world around you is a reflection of who you are.
“It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go