random pulls from bartlett's familiar quotations
weather: 🌥️ may gray is working overtime
critters: doves (fluffed against the cold)
"facts are stubborn things."
--alain-rené lesage
"be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
--gustave flaubert
"there are about forty-nine masochists to one sadist."
--cyril connolly
"man is everywhere a disturbing agent. wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords."
--george perkins marsh
"hope is a waking dream."
--aristotle