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Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. ~Elbert Hubbard Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night. ~Paul Hornung



Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other. ~Joseph Addison



It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it. ~From the television show The Golden Girls



It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. ~James Matthew Barrie, What Every Woman Knows, about charm



Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious. ~Saint Thomas Aquinas



Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. ~John Updike, Self-Consciousness, 1989



While breastfeeding may not seem the right choice for every parent, it is the best choice for every baby. ~Amy Spangler



Antimetabole: figure of emphasis in which the words in one phrase or clause are replicated, exactly or closely, in reverse grammatical order in the next phrase or clause. It is similar to chiasmus although chiasmus does not use repetition of the same words or phrases. Example: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." ~John F. Kennedy



Do I like my coffee black? There are other colors? ~Author Unknown



Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain. ~Diane de Poitiers



I cannot help it, - in spite of myself, infinity torments me. ~Alfred de Musset, L'Espoir en Dieu



I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. ~Rebecca West



When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the World Wide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page. ~Bill Clinton, 1996



It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate. ~George McGovern



Women prefer men who have something tender about them - especially the legal kind. ~Kay Ingram



Art is Man's nature. Nature is god's art. ~James Bailey



Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ~Benjamin Franklin



Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish. ~William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954



Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. ~Ruth E. Renkel



Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound