"Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!"

-- Phyllis Bottome

“In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you'd get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it's hard work, almost harder once you're successful because you've got to maintain it.”
“The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.”
“A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.”

Source : Smiley Blanton (1956). “Love or perish”
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!”
“In the interweave of mind and body, dance is a mode that allows people to work through difficulties, anticipate the future, recollect the past, and confront the present.”

Source : Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.217, Rowman Altamira
“Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.”
“Let's stop for a moment to admire the rotating pies.”
“Hang your idea on a peg that all can read.”

Source : c.1907 Quoted in Oliver Carlson Brisbane: a Candid Biography (1937), ch.7.

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