It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage.
No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre. The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street.
Thought is the thought of thought.
Life is too short to read a bad book.
Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him
Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.
The New York Times credited me with the rediscovery and revival of red velvet cake. I consider this as one of my great life achievements.
About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.