When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they...

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they...

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

It costs you something to do good!

It costs you something to do good!

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then...

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then...

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its...

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its...

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes...

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes...

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have...

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have...

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes...

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes...

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear...

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear...

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take...

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take...

Love and friendship exclude each other.

Love and friendship exclude each other.