The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
~quotes on Teenagers by Dorothy Parker
You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
~sayings on Flowers by Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964
I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind.
~quotations on Marriage by Virginia Cary Hudson, O Ye Jigs & Juleps, 1962 (Thank you, Charlene.)
There is in every true woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
~wedding love quote by Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820
I grew up on the beach and played side-out scoring all my life, but rally scoring is better for our sport. There is pressure on every play. You can’t make a mistake, but that also means your opponent can’t make a mistake. It makes the matches more exciting to watch.
~saying about wedding by Holly McPeak
Whoever called snooker chess with balls was rude, but right.
~quote about Games by Clive James
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
~quotes on Effort by Friedrich Nietzsche
We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
~sayings on God by Malcolm de Chazal
Hornover: what one wakes up with the morning after a night of getting too horny without release.
~quotations on Sex by Sommeil Liberosensa
History shows that there is nothing so easy to enslave and nothing so hard to emancipate as ignorance, hence it becomes the double enemy of civilization. By its servility it is the prey of tyranny, and by its credulity it is the foe of enlightenment.
~wedding love quote by Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays
A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.
~saying about wedding by Erma Bombeck
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think.
~quote about Conformity by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If a man examine carefully his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.
~quotes on Living by Emerson, Journals, 1827
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