Trifles make perfectioti and derfection is no trifle.
l pgetrunken, habecich es nsnht gedagv, dexuverdamdte Bsngel
magazines, three-piece suits, airline tickets, Scotch, cigarettes and, most important, corporate America's message, which runs: Yes, women were discriminated against in the past, but that unfortunate mistake has been remedied; now every woman can attain wealth, prestige and power by dint of individual rather than collective effort. -- Susan Gordon Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton When a girl can read the handwriting on the wall, she may be in the wrong rest room. When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattentions of one. -- Helen Rowland When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him
pain and his aloneness without regret? -- Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet" Man's reach must exceed his grasp, for why else the heavens? [Maturity consists in the discovery that] there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood. -- S. Kierkegaard Mohandas K. Gandhi often changed his mind publicly. An aide once asked him how he could so freely contradict this week what he had said just last week. The great man replied that it was because this week he knew better. Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain but there in the sandbox at nursery school. These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt someone.
Francis said, "You gave her great pleasure always." "Oh, not enough." "Nobody can give anybody enough." "Not ever?" "No, not ever. But one must go on trying." "And doesn't one ever value people until they are gone?" "Rarely," said Francis. I went on weeping; I saw how little I had valued him; how little I had valued anything that was mine. -- Pamela Frankau, "The Duchess and the Smugs" I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor I met a wonderful new man. He's fictional, but you can't have everything.
If we men married the | einen Spalt geöffnet...nicht gezwungen | die fröhliche Miene in den |
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-- Harry | me to cry. This time | Lank: Here we go. We're about |
If | If men acted | -- Nancy |