"I saw them kissing in the shade and knew the sum of all my lore: God gave them Youth, God gave them Love, and even God can give no more."

-- Ridgely Torrence

#Kissing Quotes #Giving Quotes #Saws Quotes

“Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It seems to me that if the marriage ceremony is needed as a protection to insure the enforced support of children, then you are marrying a man who, you suspect, would under certain conditions, refuse to support his children, and it is a pretty low-down proposition. For you are marrying a man whom you already suspect of being a villain. But I have not so poor an opinion of men that I believe the greater percentage of them to be such low specimens of humanity.”
“There are certainly beliefs in traditional Buddhism that conflict with basic principles of scientific understanding, .. We can't make sense of those beliefs in any kind of scientific framework.”
“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”
“I've always talked to players about perception and reality. I don't worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good things can happen.”
“The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.”
“Donâ€™t let anyone say you canâ€™t do it. To be successful, you need to fail. The more failures you have, the more successes you will have. People just donâ€™t get that.”
“Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.”
“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”

Source : "Goodnight Moon". Book by Margaret Wise Brown, www.theguardian.com. 1947.

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