"Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom."

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Source : Carolyn G. Heilbrun (2011). “The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty”, p.213, Ballantine Books

Carolyn Heilbrun

#Marriage Quotes #Betrayal Quotes #Long Quotes

“The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics â€¦ restricted by poverty in their own country run riot in this â€¦ as long as we are overwhelmed with Irish immigrants, so long will the evil abound.”
“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
“Every hour you spend on your rear end ... saps your energy and ruins your health.”
“There cannot be a federal state of Europe without all citizens receiving the same benefits and rights.”

Source : Source: uk.businessinsider.com
“That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil.”
“I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesnâ€™t have to answer to innuendos,”
“When it's not training time, I just do my own thing. I go home and hang out with my family, kick back and [don't] think about the fight too much. I just look at it as another opportunity in my life to move up.”

Source : Interview with Johnny Testa, www.askmen.com.
“Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, thou enjoyest good health.”

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