"As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of men."

-- Joseph Addison

#Women Quotes #Gravity Quotes #Vivacity Quotes

“Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.”
“There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've got help, and this implies another limit. If you want to have neighbours, you can't have a limitless growth economy. You have to prefer to have a neighbour rather than to own your neighbour farm.”
“So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.”
“Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.”

Source : Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If I love a song I hope to find a way to get other people to love it too.”
“It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing.”

Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
“When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.”
“If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hugh M. Hefner from Oct 12, 2015

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