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Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her. -Rowland, Helen

"Sorry, you’re on the no-fly list. You can’t board the plane." – Pierre Elliott Trudeau

“Sorry, you’re on the no-fly list. You can’t board the plane.” – Pierre Elliott Trudeau

"Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety." – Daniel J. Boorstin

“Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of …

"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power." – Maya Angelou

“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” – Maya Angelou

"All of childhood’s unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood." – Maya Angelou

“All of childhood’s unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first …

"A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled." – Emily Dickinson

“A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” – Emily Dickinson

"Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter." – Benjamin Franklin

“Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.” – Benjamin Franklin

"Don’t marry a man to reform him–that’s what reform schools are for." – Mae West

“Don’t marry a man to reform him–that’s what reform schools are for.” – Mae West

"Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils" – Cyril Connolly

“Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils” – Cyril Connolly

“I don’t know about bores. Maybe you shouldn’t feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don’t hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they’re all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.” – J. D. Salinger

“I don’t know about bores. Maybe you shouldn’t feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don’t hurt anybody …

"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness." – Henry Ward Beecher

“God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.” – Henry Ward Beecher

"We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last …

"Who is a hero? He who conquers his urges" – The Talmud

“Who is a hero? He who conquers his urges” – The Talmud

"God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing." – William Lyon Phelps

“God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and …

"If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each." – Princess Diana

“If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.” – Princess Diana

"The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father." – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"We are a work in progress with a lifetime contract." – Phyllis Koss

“We are a work in progress with a lifetime contract.” – Phyllis Koss

"Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own" – Adam Lindsay Gordon

“Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own” – Adam Lindsay Gordon

"You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who’ve never had any." – Bill Cosby

“You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who’ve never had any.” – Bill Cosby

"Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love." – Mildred B. Vermont

“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love.” – Mildred B. Vermont

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes" – Benjamin Disraeli

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes” – Benjamin Disraeli

"Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!" – William Shakespeare

“Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!” – William Shakespeare

"Fair speech may hide a foul heart." – J.R.R. Tolkien

“Fair speech may hide a foul heart.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

"The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies their doing whatever they please with the world, just the way Hitler’s mythology of Aryan superiority justified his doing whatever he pleased with Europe. But in the end this mythology is not deeply satisfying. The Takers are a profoundly lonely people. The world for them is enemy territory, and they live in it like an army of occupation, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary specialness." – Daniel Quinn

“The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and …

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward." – Amelia Earhart

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide …

"A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education." – Smiley Blanton

“A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.” – Smiley Blanton

"To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone." – Suzanne Gordon

“To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.” – Suzanne Gordon

"Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn – these are all shall befall, Any woman born" – Margaret Widdemer

“Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn – these are all shall befall, Any woman born” – Margaret Widdemer

Spanish Proverb: Avoid a friend who covers you with his …

Avoid a friend who covers you with his wings and destroys you with his beak. Spanish Proverb Proverb Link: Avoid a friend who covers you …

"How can I set free anyone who doesn’t have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it’s a lie – people claim they want to be free – everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that’s bullshit! People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It’s their security…How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don’t really want to be free?" – Jim Morrison

“How can I set free anyone who doesn’t have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it’s a lie …

"We knew right away from his exam and where his discomfort was that it wasn’t his shoulder. The MRI was to confirm the extent of the injury and to rule out some other strange things — stress fractures and bizarre things that you keep in back of your mind. Sure enough, it was exactly what we thought it was. And it was a little bit more than we would have anticipated, given how comfortable he was (Friday night) after pitching." – William Raasch

“We knew right away from his exam and where his discomfort was that it wasn’t his shoulder. The MRI was to confirm the extent of …

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