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Beginnings are always messy.
Life calls the tune, we dance.
The French cook; we open tins.
Only love makes fruitful the soul.
Early morning does not mince words.
Headlines twice the size of the events.
Love has no age, no limit; and no death.
As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
Matters change and morals change; men remain.
Public opinion's always in advance of the law.
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.
The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .
If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.
Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.
Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.
It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.
Summer summer summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!
I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!
the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.
Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.
By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.
Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.
Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.
Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.