Oft it may be chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were heedful for the wise to know.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: rabp
But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.
Louisa May AlcottTags: rabp
...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.
Louisa May AlcottTags: rabp
And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.
Jane AustenTags: rabp
for I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value is our estimation.
Jane AustenTags: rabp
Believe me, if you’re a teenager, you’re always in the damned woods. Literally, you’re in the woods — probably too much you’re in the woods. And metaphorically you’re in the woods, in your life.
Jay PariniTags: rabp
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
(in "The Sporting Spirit", Tribune, GB, London, December 1945)
Tags: war violence sports rabp
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
H.L. MenckenTags: rabp
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.
Mignon McLaughlinTags: rabp
When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win.
Henny YoungmanTags: rabp
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