"Why do men so eagerly take the leash……" — Robert Graves
"Why do men so eagerly take the leash of marriage into their mouths as if it was going to be just a walk in the park."
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75 Quotes by Robert Graves
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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to…
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat…
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of…
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There is one story and one story only.
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are…
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The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War…
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We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like…
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The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing…
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief…
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a…
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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought,…
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From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home,…
— Marcus Aurelius
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You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you're eternally evolving. When you get into that place…
— Esther Hicks
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Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the…
— Charles Dickens
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It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.
— Eric Hoffer
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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in…
— Winston Churchill
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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
— Epictetus
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Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.
— Fran Lebowitz
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That the entire People of God, to whom Christ entrusted the mandate to go and preach the Gospel to every…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the…
— Justin Martyr
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Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can…
— Jack Lovelock
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