"Humour is the best way to make the…" — Mary Ann Shaffer
"Humour is the best way to make the unbearable bearable."
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56 Quotes by Mary Ann Shaffer
Mary Ann Shaffer has 56 quotes on this site.
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I don't want to be married just to be married. ...
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Those times, I tried to think of something happy, something I'd liked - but not something I loved, for that…
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Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.
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I am in a constant state of surprise these days. Actually, now that I calculate, I've been betrothed only one…
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But you want to know about the influence of books on my life, and as I've said, there was only…
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I don’t know whether to feel flattered or hunted.
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I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting,…
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When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to…
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Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
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Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful…
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That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will…
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I, too, have felt that the war goes on and on. When my son, Ian, died at El Alamein-- side…
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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical…
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Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.
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So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will…
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Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of…
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Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.
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The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but…
— Robyn Davidson
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The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.
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You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake…
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My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of…
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The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment.…
— Henry Hazlitt
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The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at…
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