“I don't think you should go into politics until you can stand on your own two feet economically, if possible, and you know enough about the world.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldShouldTwoEnoughFeet Author:Ross Kemp
“Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.” IfsGivingTwoEnoughWishBusinessFitShipsTwo ThingsAbundancePlusExcessForteAdornmentDuosVim Author:Plautus
“Let a man who wants to find abundance of employment procure a woman and a ship: for no two things do produce more trouble if you begin to equip them; neither are these two things ever equipped enough.” IfsMenWantTwoEnoughTroubleProduceShipsEmploymentTwo ThingsAbundance Author:Plautus
“It is easier for a woman to be a good wife than a good mother. A widow has two duties with contrary obligations: she is a mother and she must exercise paternal authority. Few woman are strong enough to understand and to play this role.” TwoEnoughPlayMotherStrongRolesWifeDutyEasierExerciseAuthorityContraryObligationStrong EnoughWidowsGood MotherGood Wife Author:Honore de Balzac
“With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little visual spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathomable, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder; whirl around, and simultaneously by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into dissolution; and, offhand, become air, and non-extant--the little spitfires!” MenWorldLittlesTwoIdeasEnoughMy OwnAirDistanceSurpriseRateStrikesVisualsMidstPaceMechanismSurprisingTwelvePausesInsecureDissolutionUnfathomableCohesionHoveringDueling Book:Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh
“If one is the kind of creature I am and wants to do the kind of writing I want to do, an undisturbed bourgeois existence with no distractions seems in order. A single meeting outside the family upsets one's whole inner web, makes one start off on two-days' thinking and weighing, destroys a delicate balance etc. etc. ... I now have enough friends to last me a lifetime and that is enough. I am going to close the doors and hibernate at least for a couple of years. I am frightfully depressed about my work. It seems to me perfectly mediocre.” IfsThinkingWantWritingYearsKindTwoEnoughWholeSeemsLastsOrderExistenceDoorsCoupleBalanceCreaturesMeetingsLifetimeUpsetEtcWorking ItDistractionDelicateMediocreBourgeoisTwo DaysWeighing Author:May Sarton
“In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.” TwoEnoughUseLiteratureLanguageConversationCanadaSermonsScotchSpoken Language Author:Stephen Leacock
“Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backwards in time and exist in two places at once.” IfsTwoEnoughLightMovingTimeLinesSpaceFasterDimensionsBackwardsEnd Times Book:Cat's Eye Source: Cat's Eye