Prolongance Quotes & Sayings

No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others. — Alice Duer Miller

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention. — Jessica Savitch

That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that. — Cal Ripken Jr.

Thorndyke never forgets a likely case. He is sort of a medico-legal camel. He gulps down the raw facts from the newspapers or elsewhere, and then, in his leisure moments, he calmly regurgitates them and has a quiet chew at them. — R. Austin Freeman

If you don't use good ingredients, the outcome is never going to be excellent. But if you buy the freshest ingredients that are in season, at their peak, and you cook with them, you can't really go wrong. — Gail Simmons

You only find complete unanimity in a cemetary. — Abel Aganbegyan

Art is to console those who are broken by life. — Vincent Van Gogh

The skin of a python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox. — Maneka Gandhi

The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties ... — Meher Baba

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased. — Thomas Malthus

In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension. — Horatio Greenough