A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
From Dorothy L. Sayers
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
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