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~ The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts. ~

Shirley Hazzard

~ The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning. ~

Rosenstock Huessy

~ War is what happens when language fails. ~

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

~ Dreams don't have to come true at age 20, 30, or 40; they often occur long past when you thought possible. ~

Anon x

~ Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if they are not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered. ~

Wilfred A. Peterson

~ Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but reality (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. ~

Plato

~ A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of a friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of life. ~

Joseph Addison 1672

~ Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them. ~

Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918

~ Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. ~

De Witt Clinton

~ Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. ~

Anon xxxx

~ Kindness is language which the dumb can speak, and the deaf can understand. ~

C.N. Bovee

~ A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of a friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of life. ~

Joseph Addison 1672

~ The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success. ~

Anna Garlin Spencer

~ The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. ~

George Bernard Shaw 1856

~ The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty. ~

Theodore Roosevelt

~ Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be. ~

Adlai E. Stevenson

~ If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. ~

Martin Luther King, jr.

~ Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. ~

Napoleon I

~ The dearest possession a man has is his family In the divine assurance that family ties may transcend the boundaries of death, and may continue throughout endless ages of eternity, I find supreme consolation and inspiration. ~

David McKay

~ Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based. ~

Betty Friedan

~ Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway. ~

Joey Adams

~ Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. ~

Hoshang N. Akhtar

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

Anonymous

~ All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. ~

Anonymous

~ Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. ~

Francis Bacon

~ Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. ~

Francis Bacon

~ All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage. ~

Lord Byron

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