"No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons."

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Source : 'Camilla' (1796) bk. 6, ch. 10

Fanny Burney

#Men Quotes #Preparation Quotes #May Quotes

“There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging that you were on to it. Fantasy is a by-product of security: it's the difference between hanging upside down in your dominatrix's bondage parlor after work on Friday and enduring the real thing for years on end in Saddam's prisons....”
“Exercise is your king, and nutrition is your queen. Together they create your fitness kingdom.”
“The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.”

Source : Smithsonian Institution, James Smithson (1966). “Knowledge Among Men: Eleven Essays on Science, Culture, and Society Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of James Smithson”
“What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.”
“Don't ask for cash from sponsors, imagine what they want”
“Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.”
“Trust is the first step to love.”
“One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it right." What he meant was, you have to plan every operation You cannot ever be casual You have to realize that any operation is a potential fatality.”

Source : "A Conversation With: Joseph E. Murray; On Surgical Innovation And The Questions It Can Raise". Interview With Cornelia Dean, www.nytimes.com. September 25, 2001.

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