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George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
"How much the wife is dearer than the bride."
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Source : "An Irregular Ode", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 868-71, 1922.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
#Wife Quotes
#Brides Quotes
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“For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.”
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“['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably couldn't now, is that I didn't have any sense that anyone would hear it. I started writing the song while I was in London...and I was totally unknown.... So I assumed that they would never be heard. I could just write or say anything I wanted. Now I'm very aware, and I have to deal with my stage fright and my anxiety about people examining or judging it. The idea that people will pass judgment on it is not a useful thought.”
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“You don’t seek the way. The way seeks you.”
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“The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.”
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“My whole life, my whole soul, my whole spirit is to blow that horn.”
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“Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.”
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“Time doesn't conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.”
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“Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good job. What is a good job? One that pays well. Oh. And that's it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? It's a tragically limited idea of what life is all about.”
