All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
#quotes #eugene-field #happiness #hardship

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict. ~Frank B. Kellogg
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Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she is cheered on and supported. ~Sheryl Sandberg
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
#quotes #tom-robbins #critic #writing

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work; and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ~David Knopfler
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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ~Jose Marti
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. ~Abraham Lincoln
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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. ~Judith Martin
#quotes #judith-martin #women

Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is. ~Max Muller
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
#quotes #ben-jonson #reality

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. ~Jane Fonda
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Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. ~Tertullian
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The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive. ~George Santayana
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Who lies for you, will lie against you. ~Bosnian Proverb
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A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
#proverbs #greek-proverbs #philosophical

Who gives not thanks to men, gives not thanks to God. ~Arabic Proverb
#proverbs #arabic-proverbs #gratitude

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
#proverbs #greek-proverbs #society #trees

If you chase two rabbits, you catch none. ~Confucius
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. ~William J. H. Boetcker
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
#proverbs #american-proverbs #marriage