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When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Like an old photograph, time can make a feeling fade, but the memory of a first love never fades away. — Tim McGraw
[When] you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness. — Gwyneth Paltrow
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes Featureless figures… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them… — Benjamin Franklin
Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that… — Barbara Jordan
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy. — Henry Ward Beecher
It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I… — Washington Irving
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is… — Juvenal
A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because… — Dorothea Kent
I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner
The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance of the moon… — Donald C. Peattie
Do you want a happy heart when you are old? Then get with the Lord and stay with Him. That is how it works. — Shelton Smith
The old foundations of success are gone ... The world's wealthiest man, Bill Gates, owns nothing tangible: no land, no gold or oil, no factories… — Lester Thurow
According to an old French motto, Noblesse oblige - one must live up to one's name. The Rothschilds' condition of life has imposed on them… — Guy de Rothschild
You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work. — Unknown Author
But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy… — George Arnold
When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them. — Edvard Grieg
Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when… — Karl Pearson
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own… — John Playfair
Love is just a peculiar, fleeting affair that isn't very important, but in marriage there is always hostility between two different tribes of human beings.… — Irene Nemirovsky
The old system of having a baby was much better than the new system, the old system being characterized by the fact that the man… — Dave Barry
If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have… — Rufus Jones

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