No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.
Aldous HuxleyRead
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No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.
You cannot do a kindness too soon.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.
By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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