Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
Quote by Henry Ward Beecher
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
- A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
- There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
- God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
- No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
- Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
- What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
- A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
- Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
- No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
- The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
Best Quotes
- A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
- I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
- Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
- Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
- I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
- Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.
- Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it.
- Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.