"When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days."

-- Maxim Gorky

#Wedding Quotes #Winter Quotes #Ice Quotes

“I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.”
“Examine the measure of your children's capacities, and leave none of them uncultivated. However modest you may be in dress and other expenditures for a person of your rank, consecrate all you have to your children's education.”

Source : Sophie von La Roche (1991). “The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim: Extracted by a Woman Friend of the Same from Original Documents and Other Reliable Sources”, p.138, SUNY Press
“Artists don't create society, they reflect it”

Source : Ben Elton (2013). “Elton Plays: 1: Gasping; Silly Cow; Popcorn”, p.139, A&C Black
“I have no way of portraying the lives of others. I portray my own.”
“In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.”
“Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.”

Source : Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.210, BookBaby
“A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]”
“In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).”

Source : Barry Mazur (2004). “Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen)”, p.138, Macmillan

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