Frays Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in. — Gloria Steinem

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend. — Benjamin Franklin

Mrs Hendred did not like the people around her to be unhappy. Even the sight of a housemaid crying with the pain of the toothache made her feel low, for misery had no place in her comfortable existence; and when it obtruded itself on her notice it dimmed the warm sunshine in which she basked, and quite ruined her belief in a world where everyone was contented, and affluent, and cheerful. — Georgette Heyer

But surely it is something to have been
The best beloved for a little while,
To have walked hand in hand with Love, and seen
His purple wings flit once across thy smile. — Oscar Wilde

Noses run. Feet smell. — Teresa Monachino

Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory. — Betty Smith

I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing. — Benjamin Walker

Love you not, then, to list and hear
The crackling of the gorse-flower near,
Pouring an orange-scented tide
Of fragrance o'er the desert wide? — Alfred William Howitt

Those who want power do not deserve it.
And those who deserve power do not want it. — J.K. Rowling

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise. — Mickey Rourke

Thus the growing complications of our everyday life, which might have been an affliction, proved to be a blessing in disguise. Indeed, had not the epidemic, as already mentioned, spread its ravages, all would have been for the best. — Albert Camus

Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection. — Tariq Ramadan