"To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards ..."

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Source : Dorothy Osborne (1903). “The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple”

Dorothy Osborne

#Marriage Quotes #Couple Quotes #Example Quotes

“It is because you have the typical American habit of seeing everything as a test. You see the mountain as your enemy and you set out to defeat it. So, naturally, the mountain fights back and it is stronger than you are. We do not see the mountain as our enemy to be conquered. The purpose of our climb is to become one with the mountain and so it lifts us up and carries us along.”
“There are times when I get through the day by looking around the office and thinking, 'My God, aren't the natives here strange.'”
“I'm not Zappa, you know. I'm just Terry.”
“judge not that ye be not judged”
“A pine needle fell in the forest. The hawk saw it. The deer heard it. The white bear smelled it”

Source : Edith Pattou (2014). “North Child”, p.46, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“If his drunkenness had legs, it would be Alexander the Great and conquer the known world. Then it would puke for a week into a solid gold toilet it stole from Zeus's guest room.”
“Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.”

Source : "Fussbudget" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. August 6, 2012.
“I don't mind if somebody texts me but I'm not a big texter, the things are too small. I don't mind if they text, '7 o'clock,' that's fine, that's logistics but, 'What's up?' Get real! Pick up a phone!”

Source : "Penny Marshall talks cancer, abortion, reconciling with 'Laverne & Shirley co-star in new memoir". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. October 4, 2012.

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