"To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry."

-- Dejan Stojanovic

#Smile Quotes #Children Quotes #Risk Quotes

“In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose.”
“Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.”
“Even the best team, without a sound plan, can't score.”
“You meet someone and itâ€™s so much more than meeting them. Itâ€™s so much bigger and itâ€™s like youâ€™re enchanted by them.”
“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.”

Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.114, Reprint Services Corporation
“Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably preoccupied with architectural meaning. Where else would a department store include in its advertisements the name of the architect who created it, or a newspaper property section throw in a scholarly exposition of theoretical design?”

Source : Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA
“I never liked the men I loved, and never loved the men I liked.”

Source : "Long line of Jewish comedians ahead of Seinfeld" by Michael A. Stusser, www.cnn.com. December 28, 2007.
“We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.”

Source : Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.6, Knopf

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