A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity

Ben Jonson

There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing.

Lynn Margulis

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sophocles

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Miguel de Cervantes

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

Emily Mortimer

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Leo Buscaglia

I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.

Kyril Bonfiglioli

In politics, there are no friends.

Marian Wright Edelman

He who takes but never gives, may last for years but never lives.

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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

Rita Dove

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

Roland Joffe

Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good! There are two kinds of people: those who choose to throw out the good cherries and wallow in all the rotten ones, and those who choose to throw out all the rotten ones and savor all the good ones.

C. JoyBell C.