By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
Samuel Johnson
Related if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o... CHRISTINA ENGELA When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would n... STEPHEN CRANE It was huge for us to see him out there playing, and second of all for him to be as effective as he ... BRETT SOMMERVILLE Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. SAINT AUGUSTINE Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Taking a deep breath, he made a second attempt. “It’s so hard to let Claire go. Romantics are fo... THOMAS ALLEN When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the ... HELEN ROWLAND Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second. KEN KESEY A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. ALEXANDER SOLZEHNITSYN A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. ALEXANDER SOLZENITSYN Billy played well. He got into foul trouble in the second quarter. He got two fouls in the second so... LARRY HOGAN A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the ... BERTOLT BRECHT [The couple divorced, the captain agreed to divorce his first wife, and then he and Betty remarried ... MICHAEL BUERK Carl can play anywhere because he is so versatile. John has done a good job of showing me that he wa... AUGUSTINE RUIZ He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but
of three things. The first was th... PLUTARCH When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. STANLEY KUBRICK Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do? TERRY PRATCHETT A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. ANATOLE FRANCE Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another. ANATOLE FRANCE Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another ANATOLE FRANCE A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twic... KARL MARX S.J.’s second wife, Eloise, decided to have him killed, so she hired two hit men — one of whom, ... MALCOLM GLADWELL It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a rea... ALFRED ADLER First was to create a rationale for it by convincing people that the city wasn't doing well under th... EDWARD SKYLER He's standing in a cluster of black T-shirts - together, they look like the wilted petals on a singl... HOLLY SCHINDLER Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER Bob Novak called me before he went to print with the report and he said a CIA source had told him th... JOE WILSON I've gotten over that by now. But I remember the first time reading the book, I was like, 'W... TAYLOR LAUTNER When a man tells you he cant be alone dont be surprised when he gets married 4 months after you brea... STARGAZER Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no ... AGESILAUS THE SECOND She hoped that her baby was happy and would be waiting for her when she herself left Botswana and we... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH I tried to think of a vice I want to sacrifice, and ended up reasoning that I need my bad habits, de... SARA BAUME 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 Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invis... SAM HARRIS Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. JIM BACKUS Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success JIM BACKUS That was the first time he told me he loved me and he was proud of me. He wasn't a very emotional ma... LARRY GARZA A man is never so ridiculous by those Qualities that are his own as by those that he affects to have BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I told him to miss the second free throw. If they were going to make a shot with three seconds left ... ED CRISMAN His words cost him so much, she thought, not like hers that just came dancing out of the air and wen... URSULA K. LE GUIN By the time we've made it, we've had it. MALCOLM FORBES A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so... VIKTOR E. FRANKL The so-called No. 2 is actually the first one because he thought the first one, which he wrote secon... LOUIS LANE The Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played wi... CHRISTINA ENGELA At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which command... RALPH WALDO EMERSON The key to every man is his thought.... He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which comm... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 It must have been a most blessed discover... THOMAS CARLYLE I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER He confronted my wife and she didn't deserve that. When my wife saw him, she asked him to leave and ... HAL TURNER The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The o... CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE A man actually has two Gods. The one, created him and the other, he created. Nature is not the first... THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE How do you know about the world is real?... How?... How you don't think that you are locke... DEYTH BANGER Dani made very good step-by-step progress. He tried a qualifying tyre for the first time and he was ... MAKOTO TANAKA Loving someone selflessly would mean sharing their happiness whether you are part of that happiness ... SANDHYA JANE Lovely was my compliment. Could you not come up with your own?" "Lord Paen said compliment her,... LYNSAY SANDS He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed. TERTULLIAN oh, oh GreenHollyWood says with a smile and even and angry sounds like devil who comes from hell... ... DEYTH BANGER He always has said that he wanted to be a citizen. He's really made his career and a second life her... KATIE KIRBY I see him as a man reborn. He stands for redemption and a second chance at life. JOSH SIBLEY Nick was seeded third. He beat the second-ranked kid and in the finals took on the first. He was win... REGGIE WAX The director of the Road Safety Authority comes on the radio to tell me that today is the day of the... SARA BAUME Everything is very nearly over. And so none of the normal rules of behavior apply. And so none of my... SARA BAUME But I know I will do neither; nothing. I have all the time in the world, and yet, I can't be bothere... SARA BAUME So it's as if,' I say, 'I'm okay in my own bones, but I know that my bones aren't living up to other... SARA BAUME There really isn't much wrong with me,' I say, 'it's just that, well, I'm not like other people; I d... SARA BAUME I knew precisely what things I wanted to do—and when and why—and I was deeply resentful of other... SARA BAUME There is a second political issue about whether he made a misstatement about his knowledge concernin... JAN BARAN There is a second political issue about whether he made a misstatement about his knowledge concernin... JAN BARAN So began their love, the boy happy and amazed, she happy and not surprised at all (nothing happens b... ITALO CALVINO We didn't do a good job on him the whole game. In the first half, he drove to the basket and made fr... BARRY GEBHART A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD He's a freshman so he's still learning. There wasn't a lot of contact made on (Davis), but Brian did... CHARLES HOWARD Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE I have a second-grader of my own and if he grows up to be half the person Bo was, I will be a happy ... COLEMAN BAILEY If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond t... SAMUEL E. MORISON What bothered me was all of the time he wasted by drumming, and all the time I wasted by listening t... SARA BAUME She is so stubborn -- in a way that is the highest compliment I can give a player. She wasn't going ... KATIE MEIER He made one mistake and now it's costing him his life. A lot of people get a second chance. I think ... KENNETH SMITH A man must be faithful to God, so he can be faithful to his wife. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they t... VICTOR HUGO He was so revered by his teammates as well as other major league players. He might have been the mos... TOM KELLY When Bush was sworn in the second time as governor, his father is standing behind him, and as he tur... HARVEY KRONBERG I think very much of the people, as an old friend said he thought of woman. He said when he lost his... ABRAHAM LINCOLN If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left... SAMUEL JOHNSON As soon as Fedora was hired, it didn't take (Johnson) long to figure out that we'd split the tight e... MIKE GUNDY
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. SAMUEL JOHNSON Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. SAMUEL JOHNSON Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom natur... SAMUEL JOHNSON Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well. SAMUEL JOHNSON I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be sile... SAMUEL JOHNSON He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors afte... SAMUEL JOHNSON To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the f... SAMUEL JOHNSON We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again exp... SAMUEL JOHNSON Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying t... SAMUEL JOHNSON I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation... SAMUEL JOHNSON It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldo... SAMUEL JOHNSON Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: b... SAMUEL JOHNSON Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. SAMUEL JOHNSON No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. SAMUEL JOHNSON Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected. SAMUEL JOHNSON The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken. SAMUEL JOHNSON The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years. SAMUEL JOHNSON While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, ... SAMUEL JOHNSON Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. SAMUEL JOHNSON The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little. SAMUEL JOHNSON He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great. SAMUEL JOHNSON No one ever became great by imitation. SAMUEL JOHNSON