Maryon Pearson famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.
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The big problem is to find suitable hats. I don't care for them all that much, but you have to wear them in politics.
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Men are strange about politics. I have been around the world twice and I know politicians from many cultures. They are all alike. As long as they find themselves in the middle of it, they say they are sorry that all their time is taken up by politics. But as soon as they have lost and are out - oh, how terrible for them!
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I married him for better or worse. I didn't marry him for lunch.
-- Maryon Pearson
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Marriage isn't a carnival ride.
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Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
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All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
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We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
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This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
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Behind every great man is a good brother.
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Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him
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