"A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face."

Burke, Billie on age and aging
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"Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force."

Sayers, Dorothy L. on age and aging   

"The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man."

Stael, Germaine De on desire
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"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother."

Sanger, Margaret on birth control   

"Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed."

Greer, Germaine on marriage
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"A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on words
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"Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel."

Chapman, George on advice
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"Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent."

Clarke, W. A. on marriage
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"Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman."

Wilde, Oscar on romance and romanticism
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"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning."

Lao-Tzu on attachment
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"We live in deeds

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest:
Lives in one hour more than in years do some
Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all things -- God.
The dead have all the glory of the world."

Bailey, Philip James on achievement
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"Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on night
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"Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation."

Nash, Ogden on weekends
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"On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet."

Gordon, George on art   

"If your going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for in the morning, sleep late."

Youngman, Henny on regret
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"Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical."

Macaulay, Rose on bed   

"Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low."

Sidney, Sir Philip on sleep
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"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep."

Auden, W. H. on teacher
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"He who sleeps half a day has won half a life."

Kraus, Karl on sleep
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"The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows."

Bachelard, Gaston on sleep
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"To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious."

Traherne, Thomas on love
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