"Marriage is the cold potato of love."
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"There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast."
"At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women."
"Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are."
"I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from."
"... the song of the world is all of love."
"When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment."
"... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well."
"Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else."
"... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness."
"A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory."
"Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?"
"Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others."
"Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets."
"Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort."
"Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there."
"Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come."
"When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out."
"when you can't see straight ahead, it's because you're about to turn a corner."
"When you borrow trouble you give your peace of mind as security."