"One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer."

-- Theophrastus

#May Quotes #Companionship Quotes #Flattery Quotes

“Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.”
“I recognize women are under a lot more stress today. The things you consider stress are also the blessings in your life.”
“In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.”
“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.”
“Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.”
“And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which Providence has prepared man.”
“Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known, there can be no knowledge. We have observed that every science, that is, every branch of knowledge, is compounded of certain facts, of which our sensations furnish the evidence. Where no such evidence is supplied, we are without data; we are without first premises; and when, without these, we attempt to build up a science, we do as those who raise edifices without foundations. And what do such builders construct? Castles in the air.”
“A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.”

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