"One does not marry to become a judge of the spouse's behavior. If a marriage license is mistaken for a hunting license and disapproval, punishment, and threat of withdrawal of love are employed as weapons, all one bags is one's own unhappiness."

-- Jo Coudert

#Hunting Quotes #Punishment Quotes #Judging Quotes

“I'm pretty quiet. But I love to play sports. I like playing all sports. I'll act goofy at times around my wife and my son, around my own family. I like to have fun in general.”

Source : Interview with Marc J. Spears, www.denverpost.com. March 24, 2007.
“Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.51, Random House
“Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.”
“One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles. It was an important night in my life, because I had to make a decision about the hotel. Either I paid up or I got out: that was what the note said, the note the landlady had put under my door. A great problem, deserving acute attention. I solved it by turning out the lights and going to bed.”

Source : John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.411, Canongate Books
“I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion.”
“The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. If his depreciation of himself were untrue,... it wouldnot be praiseworthy, and would be a form of hypocrisy, which is one of the evils of Pride. The man who is falsely humble, we know from our own experience, is one who is falsely proud.”

Source : Henry Fairlie (2015). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”, p.47, University of Notre Dame Pess
“After analyzing the sanctions against our space industry, I suggest to the USA to bring their astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline,”
“Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret.”

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