God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
From Rudyard Kipling
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
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