"Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise."

-- Alexander Pope

#Eye Quotes #Hands Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.”
“We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence.”
“A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge.”
“â€Ž"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.”
“Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.”
“I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.”
“nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens, women make amends by housekeeping, childbirth, and writing all the letters for both of them ...”

Source : Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”
“We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.”

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