"Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it."

-- Susan B. Anthony

#Men Quotes #Luxury Quotes #Incidents Quotes

“Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.”
“Being pregnant taught me how to be a better writer. It was a lesson in negative capability and surrendering to necessity. Suddenly, my body instinctually yielded to the needs of this growing being, and I had no choice but to embrace what was happening and all that lay ahead, even if I was afraid and uncertain. So, while being a parent has made writing more challenging, it has also made being a writer more certain. There's no room to procrastinate; there is to time for fear.”
“Become a legend? But I am already.”
“Advertising is in essence simply a means of communication through mass media which is available to anyone who can pay for it. It is, in this sense, rather like electricity, which can be used to work a refrigerator or a dentist's drill.”
“There are no inevitabilities in history”

Source : Paul Johnson (1983). “Modern times: the world from the twenties to the eighties”, HarperCollins Publishers
“For a moment she turned in a circle, staring at her hands, which she held high and useless, close to her breast. She bobbed and shambled like an ape doing a trick, and her face was the silly, bewildered face of a joker's victim. And yet she could make no move that was not beautiful. Her trapped terror was more lovely than any joy that Molly had ever seen, and that was the most terrible thing about it.”
“Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.”
“Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice. "In general, people only ask for advice," he said "that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it".”

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