"You should never put the new antlers of……" — Yoshida Kenko
"You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain."
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18 Quotes by Yoshida Kenko
Yoshida Kenko has 18 quotes on this site.
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Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long…
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On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while chatting at…
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Ambition never comes to an end.
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Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can…
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of…
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One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good…
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A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only…
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If life were eternal, all interest and anticipation would vanish. It is uncertainty which lends it fascination.
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Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.
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The hour of death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing…
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The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to…
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In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one…
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How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow .…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Treasured Pagan Deities were misrepresented and distorted by the Christians for political and religious gain. Dressing their own Satan, who…
— Laurie Cabot
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When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made,…
— Alexander McQueen
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The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it…
— Peter Wessel Zapffe
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But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I…
— Georg Solti
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My wife can't cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons,…
— Garrison Keillor
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Most people would rather be sheep than stand on their own with antlers on.
— Tori Amos
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the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when you see them wearing dark glasses, having streamers…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends…
— Cassandra Clare
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We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves…
— Richard Brautigan
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