In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt. ' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
The rose is a rose, And was always a rose. But the theory now goes That the apple's a rose, And the pear is, and so's The plum, I suppose. The dear only knows What will next prove a rose. You, of course, are a rose - But were always a rose.
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.
All the fun is in how you say a thing.
People say that when a baby is crying the paternal grandmother will say, "The baby is crying, you should feed her," and the maternal grandmother will say, "Why is that baby crying so much, making her mom so tired?
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.
The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.