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Discontinue deciding what anyone else should or shouldn't be doing. — Wayne W. Dyer

I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor. — Marianne Faithfull

I want to have a little toy version of Morgana. I can then show it to my grandchildren one day. So I can say I used to have a waist. — Katie McGrath

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband. — Booth Tarkington

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough. — Booth Tarkington

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously. — Booth Tarkington

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. — Booth Tarkington

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God. — Muhammad Ali

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty. — Kenneth Arrow

I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian. — Izabel Goulart

Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time. — Booth Tarkington

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink. — Booth Tarkington

Honest, intelligent criticism is an aid to the progress of an effort. — Oscar Micheaux

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. — Booth Tarkington

The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world. — Booth Tarkington

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous. — Booth Tarkington

Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut). — Bill Vaughan

Not quite so long ago as a generation, there was no panting giant here, no heaving, grimy city . . . there was time to live. — Booth Tarkington

Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them. — Booth Tarkington

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires. — Booth Tarkington

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God. — Charles Spurgeon

Drink never drown anyone's sorrows," he went on. "It only teaches them how to swim. — Marian Keyes

stealing chocolates — Nicholas Reardon

The human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-men seem actually nonexistent — D.H. Lawrence

It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality. — Booth Tarkington

I suppose about the only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody. — Booth Tarkington

Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field. — Booth Tarkington

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. — Booth Tarkington

Personally, I tend to worry about what I save, not what I spend. — Paul Clitheroe

Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either. — Booth Tarkington

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times! — Booth Tarkington