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funny marriage wedding
Charles Caleb Colton Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
funny age fifty
Charles Caleb Colton I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
funny sarcastic yield
Charles Caleb Colton Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
funny humorous soul
Charles Dickens She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.
funny humorous expectations
Charles Dickens I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.
funny humorous rolling
Charles Dickens For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.
funny humorous majority
Charles Dickens In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article
funny humorous thinking
Charles Dickens Think! I've got enough to do, and little enough to get for it, without thinking.
pain real power
Charles Caleb Colton To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
pain shadow substance
Charles Caleb Colton Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
pain shadow may
Charles Caleb Colton Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.
pain angel reflection
Charles Caleb Colton If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.
pain memories vices
Charles Caleb Colton Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
pain doors hands
Charles Caleb Colton Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.
pain hands years
Charles Dickens On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties?
pain lying grief
Charles Spurgeon I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.
pain condolences heart
Charles Spurgeon Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life - come poverty, come wealth, in death - come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord's. For this is written on your heart, 'We love Him because He first loved us.'
stupid hate thinking
Alan Moore I thought as much. Miss Murray, though I am a beast, do not think that I am stupid. I know that I am hideous and hateful. I am not loved, nor ever hope to be. Nor am I fool enough to think that what I feel for you is love. But in this world, alone, I do not hate you. And alone in this world, you do not hate me.
stupid clinton
Chris Christie Let's go to Russia. She [Hillary Clinton] went to the Kremlin on her very first visit and gave them that stupid symbolic reset button.
stupid wish interviews
Chloe Sevigny I wish I could take back every interview. Over and over again, I read them later, and either I'm misquoted or I said something stupid. I'm just not very good at it.
stupid men angry-man
Chinua Achebe An angry man is always a stupid man.
stupid integrity reality
Chinua Achebe One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
stupid thinking people
Edith Wharton Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.
stupidity profit made
David Ricardo Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.
stupid time-flies being-stupid
David Henry Hwang Time flies when you’re being stupid.
stupid men astrology
David Hilbert If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.