For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. There’s nothing I enjoy more than… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“There was also a wall vase with artificial flowers in it. The flowers were made of crêpe paper dipped in wax. They… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers. — David Parnas Copy Share Image
There is nothing I enjoy more than to see others enjoy themselves. — Charles Comiskey Copy Share Image
“he would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whaterver… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid gardens of… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image