The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

Bertrand Russell

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

Mitch Albom

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

Bram Stoker

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlaying our hard hearts.

Charles Dickens

Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible - but new joys wait to fill the void.

Pam Brown

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Rita Mae Brown

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

Desmond Tutu

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Simone de Beauvoir

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Sylvia Plath

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

Alton Brown

And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.

Heinrich Heine