"If nature had arranged that husbands and wives……" — Laurence Housman
"If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family."
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29 Quotes by Laurence Housman
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Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every…
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For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is…
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I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late:…
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I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.
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I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a…
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I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the…
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I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me…
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If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.
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It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform…
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A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.
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A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.
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Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be…
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More Alternatively Quotes
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Using any reasonable definition of a scientist, we can say that 80 to 90 percent of all the scientists that…
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We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission,…
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Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and…
— Elliott Erwitt
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Alternatively, suppose Qaddafi winds up hanging from a lamppost in his favorite party dress. If you're a Third World dictator,…
— Mark Steyn
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Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as…
— Brian Sutton-Smith
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Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.
— Noah Taylor
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The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the…
— Caitlin Thomas
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Throughout evolutionary history, anxiety and fear have helped every species to be wary and to survive. Fear can signal us…
— Harriet Lerner
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What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't…
— Douglas Adams
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The Iron Rule of prudence for an Istanbulite Woman: If you are as fragile as a tea glass, either find…
— Elif Safak
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And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty…
— Aldous Huxley
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Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested…
— Anthony Horowitz
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