"If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!"

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

#People Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Prudent Quotes

“Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.”
“And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in manhood's more imposing cares...”

Source : Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.88
“As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match Girl'in the Hans Christian Andersen story. When I was in the boarding nursery and did not want to finish my food, the teacher would say:'Think of all the starving children in the capitalist world!”

Source : Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.246, Simon and Schuster
“I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.”
“Talk what you will of the Jews,--that they are cursed: they thrive wherever they come; they are able to oblige the prince of their country by lending him money; none of them beg; they keep together; and as for their being hated, why, Christians hate one another as much.”

Source : John Selden (1786). “Table Talk: Being the Discourses”, p.65
“What wonderful and haunting worlds Krys Lee illuminates-a goose for a goose father, a sympathetic wife made bold by her husband's infidelity- all facets of a Korea and a Korean America made new by this exciting writer's entrancing vision.”
“I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?”
“Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.”

Source : 'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 39

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