"The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity."

Bierce, Ambrose on marriage   

"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind."

Neal, John on adversity
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"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on politics   

"There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted."

Unknown, Source on dating
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"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

Kierkegaard, Søren on freedom
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"The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment. "

Washington, George on uncategorised   

"Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

Washington, George on government
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"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

Washington, George on freedom
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"In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility."

West, Rebecca on beards   

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."

Jefferson, Thomas on bankers and banking
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"Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted."

Burns, Robert on art
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"Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture."

Rowland, Helen on bachelor   

"Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever."

Rowland, Helen on bachelor   

"The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity."

Rowland, Helen on opportunity
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"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

Jefferson, Thomas on bankers and banking
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"A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain."

Twain, Mark on bankers and banking
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"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one."

Rowland, Helen on marriage
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"There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard."

Cocteau, Jean on beards   

"It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry."

Mencken, H. L. on birth control   

"Contraceptives should be used on all conceivable occasions."

Milligan, Spike on birth control   

"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   

"The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not."

Greer, Germaine on birth control   

"It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son -- and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him."

Rowland, Helen on women
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"There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author."

Sade, Marquis De on atheism
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"We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living."

Brown, Dean Charles R. on work
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"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on names
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"Better to see the face than to hear the name."

Unknown, Source on names   

"A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service."

Thoreau, Henry David on names   

"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names."

Proverb, Chinese on names
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"The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers."

Mcluhan, Marshall on names   

"Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation."

Taylor, Sid on wisdom
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"Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel."

Mansfield, Katherine on life   

"The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown."

Blake, William on fame   

"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars."

Blake, William on altruism   

"Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."

Colton, Charles Caleb on applause   

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"O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?"

Cowper, William on applause   

"The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on applause   

"Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations."

Marcus, Greil on applause   

"Inside every man there is a poet who died young."

Kanfer, Stephan on poetry and poets
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