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
- Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
- Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
- Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
- I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
- 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.
- We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
- The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
- Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
- Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
- Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Best Quotes
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- The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on science and art are as well.
- That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
- God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
- There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.
- They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.
- I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.
- To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!