"Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play."

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Source : 'The Old Bachelor' (1693) act 5, sc. 10

William Congreve

#Marriage Quotes #Witty Quotes #Play Quotes

“Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.”
“It's always fun to see where my journey takes me and how sometimes what's not on the list is so much better than what you could have imagined.”
“I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.”
“That one person that says "I heard your stuff and I really like this." It really touches my heart because it's what I love to do. I'd rather do it for the people than do it for a machine, a company that just wants to make money.”
“We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection”
“For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed hot woman of 40 +, there is a balding, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year-old waitress.”
“The difference between transformation by accident and transformation by a system is like the difference between lightning and a lamp. Both give illumination, but one is dangerous and unreliable, while the other is relatively safe, directed, available.”

Source : Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher
“May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole Earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the whole world in one common undistinguished ruin!”

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