Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.
It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
God sells knowledge for labour - honour for risk.
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
One hears about life all the time from different people with very different narrative gifts.
None think the great unhappy, but the great.
The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer.
Happiness hates the timid!
Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
One who has both feet firmly planted in the air.
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient, too.
The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.
There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever be, a crown of thorns.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.