100 Irish Mammy Quotes & Sayings

St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake. — Bertrand Russell

All limitations are self-imposed. — Ernest Holmes

Because you mean the world to me. And because I would let it all fucking burn to ash if it only meant sparing you — Nenia Campbell

-and our lips meet with feels
like not slow motion
but every moment in my life and the lack of time altogether. — Sarah Tregay

I would say it was the directors. We have to give credit to the directors for this, because in the script, we just said, "Gru's Minions do this or do that" in the initial draft. And then, they came up with the characters' design and the philosophical concept of the Minions. And then, we started writing to that. We have to give a lot of credit to them. — Cinco Paul

When we are young the noise of general conversation seems much the most fun. When we grow up we discover the possibilities of the tete-a-tete. In maturity the monologue habit sets is. But now at last there is the chance to investigate the rich depth of the silence when the monologue is suspended. — Nanamoli Thera

The skilful closer needs no bolts or bars, while to open what he has shut will be impossible; — Lao-Tzu

..technological breakthroughs, such as the Internet, have made international communications not just possible but commonplace. However, for most Americans, these international conversations are viable only if the other side speaks English. In this new international era, Americans find themselves locked in a monolingual society. How strange that, instead of viewing those who speak other languages as welcome assets to our nation, some seem eager to erase linguistic diversity. — David Miller Sadker

He lay there watching her, and when she continued to unbutton her dress, his smile widened.
"Mr. Reed, you realize that if anything we do tonight causes you a medical problem, Mr. Wilburn will give you such a scold," she said, hoping that she sounded more serene than she felt.
"I'm all aquiver about Mr. Wilburn," he said. — Carla Kelly

No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son. — Pearl S. Buck

Spouse or collaborator, it comes to the same thing. And there is work to be done. Always, always work to be done." -David Leavitt, "Partition," _The Indian Clerk_ — David Leavitt

My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation. — Nigel Rees

To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread. — Mahatma Gandhi