A man is about thirty-eight before he stockpiles enough socks to be able to get one matching pair
Merrily Harpur
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Life is too short to worry about matching socks.
ANONYMOUS We're all going out to get (matching) black socks.
DEANDRE HAYNES One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't...
J.K. ROWLING Fresh sneakers are important on a man. It's like a new pair of boxers or a new pair of socks.
DJ KHALED If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ This emperor was arbiter of the whole world at nineteen, and yet would have a man to be thirty befor...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Jurgen loved London because he could get lost here. He said that it was the first time he could do t...
TEDDY SHERINGHAM A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.
BORIS YELTSIN I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
RACHELE BROOKE SMITH One can never have enough socks
J.K. ROWLING One can never have enough socks.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He will be able to get them if he lives long enough to do it. He was always a diplomat.
JACK MILLER It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match.
PAUL VALERY Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do wit...
GERMANY KENT To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a go...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, t...
JOSH BILLINGS If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ...
ORLANDO BLOOM The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows...
MARK TWAIN Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem...
BIBLE When he was turning thirty, Jobs had used a metaphor about record albums. He was musing about why fo...
WALTER ISAACSON Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
LANCE ARMSTRONG I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete's foot fungus infections as a kid. I...
BILL NYE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Joey jumping up about eight feet and heading that one in was a great effort. He was just busting to ...
MIKE ACKERMAN Thirty-eight percent is not a lot, but he's not dead.
SILAS LEE At one point he had indicated he wanted to pair, ... He just decided that he did not want to pair.
PHIL BERGER Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we...
MARY MCDOWELL The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well...
MARY MCDOWELL When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also
OSCAR WILDE He hadn’t said a word to me until we had been roommates for eight months. And even then it had onl...
MELODY J. BREMEN It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER You have to be able to get them near you before you have to worry about them seeing you.
EARL STEELE They are producing about one chick per pair and the number scientists have determined they need for ...
ANDREA JONES To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been bac...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Then it's merrily, merrily, merrily, whoa! To the old gray church they come and go, Some to be marri...
ROBERT BENCHLEY How to be a Poet (to remind myself)
Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Professor Dumbledore. Can I ask you something?"
"Obviously, you've just done so," Dumbled...
J.K. ROWLING Professor Dumbledore. Can I ask you something?"
"Obviously, you've just done so," Dumble...
J.K. ROWLING We might be losing federal dollars by not having enough state matching dollars. We have a full time ...
KATHY ICHTER The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK How to be wealthy;Birth an idea & then take it to the market place & believe that the market place w...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people...
ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T...
THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
MICHAELA D. If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS... There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN