"I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't."

-- Marilyn vos Savant

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Lovers Quotes

“I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids.”
“When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.”
“I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my bedtime, hooked on the writing. Is anything better than waking up after a late-night read and diving right back into the plot before you even get out of bed to brush your teeth?”
“Do not pray to marry the one that you love, but to love the one that you marry.”
“If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.”
“Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.”
“If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.”
“From the earliest colonial days [in America], local governments took responsibility for their poor. However, able-bodied men and women generally were not supported by the taxpayers unless they worked.”

Source : Thomas G. West (2000). “Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America”, p.132, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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