"And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family."

-- Patricia Ireland

#Men Quotes #Law Quotes #Wife Quotes

“The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit.”
“It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately apprehensive about tripping.”

Source : Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.2584, Catholic Way Publishing
“I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.”
“When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!”
“People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.”
“I'm introverted by nature, and I need to have some things of my own.”
“Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.”

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