"How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that low key which always characterizes the true lady. In the sanctuary of home, how such a voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary husband!"

-- Charles Lamb

#Cheer Quotes #Children Quotes #Husband Quotes

“Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.”
“The end of labor is to gain leisure.”
“Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.”
“When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.”

Source : Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.9
“The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about â€˜what is true for meâ€™ is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contemporary culture. It is a preliminary symptom of death.”

Source : Lesslie Newbigin (2013). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic”, p.36, SPCK
“[I] never thought too highly of anyone foolish enough to take on the nickname of a life-destroying dope product and promote such family-destroying conduct on stage.”
“it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.”
“Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.”

Source : 2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 1 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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