"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
Ronald Reagan
"People have a tendency of filtering their memories – exaggerate the positives and downplay their weaknesses and faults. Self-preservation will be another obstacle you will have to surmount when it comes to suppressed memories."
Alexis Lawrence
"Men were like horses, she mused dreamily. All they needed was breaking in."
Margaret Way
"It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains!"
Alice Caldwell Rice
"I may not believe that 'all things happen for a reason.' But I do believe that reason may come from all things that happen."
Shellen Lubin
"Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings."
Ray Bradbury
"Narrative understanding is a large part of the ability to connect with, understand, and have compassion for all of us engaged in learning more about being human."
Leah C. Fowler
"My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? Or does every act intend some good?..."
Brent Weeks
"Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul."
John Dryden
"There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."
Booker T. Washington
"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place."
Abigail Van Buren
"If you want to know how old a woman is . . . Ask her sister-in-law."
Edgar Howe
"Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge."
Isaac Watts
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."
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