Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

Compromise if not the spice of life is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.

Of the small gifts of heaven it seems to me a more than equal share. At birth was given. To girls with curly hair.

Ladies with curly hair. Have time to spare.

Of one thing I am certain the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure.

To be a housewife is a difficult a wrenching sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved like a hug from a child.

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an a vocation. It becomes an obsession.

Suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.

It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.

A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.

That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.