Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence . ~ Thomas C. Haliburton



Next word; refined

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Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp,
To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
~Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, Act 1.

Next word: garnish

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.
~ Marilyn vos Savant



Next word: flavorful

Firm-style bean curd insoles cushion feet, absorb perspiration and provide more protein than meat or fish innersoles of twice the weight. Tofu compresses with use, becoming more pungent and flavorful . May be removed when not in use to dry or marinate. Innersoles are ready to eat after 1,200 miles of wear. Each pair provides adult protein requirement for 2 meals. Insoles are sized large to allow for snacks. Recipe booklet included.
~Alfred Gingold

Next word; requirement

I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story.~Brian De Palma

Next word: straightforward

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
~ Seneca



Next word: simplicity

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity . The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow - you are not understanding yourself. ~ Bruce Lee



Next word; shadow

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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.~C. Wright Mills

Next word: prestige

There are many examples of old, incorrect theories that stubbornly persisted, sustained only by the prestige of foolish but well-connected scientists. . . . Many of these theories have been killed off only when some decisive experiment exposed their incorrectness. .. Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.
~ Michio Kaku, Michio Kaku Hyperspace, Oxford University Press, 1995, p 263.



Next word: decisive

The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered . ~ Andre Gide



Next word; unconsidered

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A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.~William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3.

Next word: trifles

Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ:
~Shakespeare, Othello, Iago at act 3, sc3

Next word; proofs

Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.
~ Albert Camus



Next word: definitive

On Niels Bohr: He utters his opinions like one who perpetually gropes and never like one who believes to possess the definitive truth . ~ Einstein



Next word; truth

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.~Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864.

Next word: vindication

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
- Thomas Jefferson

Next word; incomprehensible

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations - past and present - are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia.
~ Eric Hoffer



Next word: millennia

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive . ~ Dr. Carl Sagan



Next word; attractive

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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.~Fran Lebowitz

Next word: overachiever

People who are overachievers or high achievers are often very hard on themselves when they fall short of their own expectations. We only control our 10 percent of life. So what we can do is work very hard at doing our best at our 10 percent. If we try to be our best person, then we've never failed because we've lived up to being the best person we can be.
~ Susan Walsh



Next word: expectations.