"There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things."

Moody, Dwight L. on christians and christianity   

"If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today."

Gandhi, Mahatma on christians and christianity
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"Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most."

Thompson, Roy on beauty
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"The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul."

Sand, George on beauty
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"Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes."

Aesop on adversity
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"Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing."

Aesop on originality
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"Appearances are deceptive."

Aesop on appearance
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"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."

Aesop on appearance
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"We have now traced the history of women from Paradise to the nineteenth century and have heard nothing through the long roll of the ages but the clank of their fetters."

Wilde, Lady Jane on women   

"The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised."

Stark, Freya on women
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"The mouth of a cannon is safer that the mouth of a woman scorned."

Unknown, Source on women
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"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"

Millet, Kate on women
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"A woman is like a teabag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is."

Reagan, Nancy on women
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"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want?"

Freud, Sigmund on women
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"I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery."

Dinesen, Isak on women   

"Acting is happy agony."

Guiness, Sir Alec on acting and actors
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"I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle."

Hitchcock, Alfred on acting and actors   

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on beauty
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"Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on beauty
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"That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful."

L'Enclos, Ninon De on beauty
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"There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you."

Eliot, George on beauty
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"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose."

Bejar, Hada on beauty
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"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

Wilde, Oscar on acting and actors
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"Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty."

Stanislavisky, Konstantin on acting and actors   

"Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant."

Jackson, Glenda on acting and actors
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"Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

Gibran, Kahlil on beauty
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"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."

Homer on marriage
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"A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it."

Unknown, Source on marriage   

"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."

Gandhi, Mahatma on life
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"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short."

Maurois, Andre on marriage
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"One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife."

Marx, Groucho on marriage
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"There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage."

Luther, Martin on marriage
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"There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them."

Lewis, C. S. on marriage
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"Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset."

Landers, Ann on marriage   

"Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented."

Heine, Heinrich on marriage
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"The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible."

Heilbrun, Carolyn on marriage
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"Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse."

Halen on marriage
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"When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on marriage
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"I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage."

Gandhi, Mahatma on marriage
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