Wife Lament Quotes & Sayings

Shoeburyness n. The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from someone else's bottom. — Steven Pinker

Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot? ... For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? ... At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal. — G.K. Chesterton

Remember, vote for life. It may be your own. — Mother Angelica

You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress. — J. Paul Getty

You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find. — Dean Koontz

Call it what you will, it's about getting up off your chair, going where the action is, and seeing things firsthand. Because when we see things for ourselves, with our own two eyes, it changes us. — David Sturt

They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising. — Macaulay Culkin

It's what you feel, what is in your heart that matters most. — Kate Winslet

Life is a gift. You fight to keep it. You never quit. Never. — Karen Marie Moning

No matter how important a man at sea may consider himself, unless he is fundamentally worthy the sea will some day find him out. — Felix Riesenberg

I think sometimes by portraying our lives as being too perfect, as being too balanced, we're actually selling younger women a bill of goods that's not true. — Debora Spar