I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble.
AGATHA CHRISTIEA mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
More Agatha Christie Quotes
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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
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Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.
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Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.
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There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.
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The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
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Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.
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Don’t think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.
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What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?
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You don’t realize what fine fighting material there is in age. You show me any one who’s lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter – someone who’s got the will to live.
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Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time thewish to kill-though not the will to kill.
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The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself – and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
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To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.
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