James Branch Cabell Famous Quotes
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell Quotations
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
Harlan Miller
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
Will Rogers
"Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'"
Saint Jerome
"All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They."
Rudyard Kipling
"The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills."
Anthony Brandt
"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him."
Orson Scott Card
"What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility."
George Levinger
Idealism is what precedes experience cynicism is what follows.
David T Wolf
"There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all"
William Hart Coleridge
"No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts."
Al Kersha