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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- When we make assumptions, we contribute to the complexity rather than the simplicity of a problem, making it more difficult to solve.
- Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
- That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
- Paul Tournier
- Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.
- Louis Schwartzberg, Marie Curie, 2011
- Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
- Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
- Jim Horning
- On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.
- Tom Lehrer (1928 - ), lecturing in "The Nature of Math", 4/4/90
- The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
- Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
- Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
- David T. Wolf (1943 - )
- Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Self-Dependence'
- Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- They wouldn't call it falling in love if you didn't get hurt sometimes, but you just pick yourself up and move on.
- Gregory Thomas Garcia, Elijah Aron, Jordan Young, Raising Hope, Cheaters, April 2011
- It's actually easy to tell if your house is haunted: It isn't. Grow up.
- Jimmy Carr, Netflix special, 2019
- You gotta dream? You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it, period.
- Steven Conrad, Pursuit of Happyness, 2006
- This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
- Oswald Spengler (1880 - 1936)
- I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
- Ann Richards
- Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
- Francis Beaumont (1584 - 1616)
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