The only mercy of children is that they grow up, as my son has but then, tragically, they beget more children. We do not learn life’s lessons.
BERNARD CORNWELLWhy get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It’s like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.
More Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn Quotes
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I might as well get a piano and start an Elton John tribute act!
ALAN CARR -
I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
GENE WEINGARTEN -
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
HARUKI MURAKAMI -
Get it right in your head – and you’ll get it right in your life.
BILL BARTMANN -
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
CHARLES DARWIN -
Weak men are afraid of a woman’s strength.
R. H. SIN -
Today I woke up in fear. Tomorrow I wake up in pain. Still, in a year I will wake up in vain.
ASHES4BONES -
Its better to walk into the fire than never feel the heat of the flames.
MAKENZIE CAMPBELL -
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
BEN BRADLEE -
Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
AGNES DE MILLE -
If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
AGNES REPPLIER -
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
BERNARD BECKETT -
Trust can burn bridges and as easily burn them down, don’t play with it.
CARMEN AMADOS -
Staying in a hopeless and miserable situation doesn’t make you loyal, it just makes you miserable.
THE WEEKND -
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
BERTRAND RUSSELL