1630s Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile. — Honore De Balzac

The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times. — Martha Beck

You don't learn about sex from doing it with boys, but from talking about it with girls. — Suzanne Moore

It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog. — Jennifer Haigh

He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing I'd ever heard: Because the answer to a heartfelt question, Jack, will always break your heart. — Thomas H. Cook

Lights and darks. And suddenly i was here, where everything seems strange. And I don't know why. Like the Fox and the Crow, I don't know the whole story yet. But that's a good reason to go on, don't you think?"
"Go where?" said the Scarecrow.
"Go forward," said the girl. "See something. Learn something. Figure it out. We won't ever get the whole thing, I bet, but we'll get something. And then we'll have something to tell when we're old about what happened to us when we were young."
"Now?" said the Scarecrow. "Can you tell it now?"
"After," said the girl. "We have to have the BEFORE first, and that's life"
"And what's life?" said the scarecrow.
"Moving," said the girl. "Moving on. Shall we move on? Will you come with me? — Bruce Coville

It's amazing how harmless the world can sometimes seem. — Jonathan Tropper

Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield. — Criss Jami