"The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb."

-- Edward Dahlberg

#Marriage Quotes #Smart Quotes #Men Quotes

“Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.”
“I promote a healthy lifestyle.”
“Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.”
“Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.”

Source : Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three”, p.161, Hachette UK
“You look older.â€ â€œYes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.”
“Im not interested in fad songs.”
“In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.”
“I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.”

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