Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.


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TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no...
MARY SCHMICH
The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
MARY SCHMICH
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
MARY SCHMICH
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
MARY SCHMICH
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w...
MARY SCHMICH
In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n...
MARY SCHMICH
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
MARY SCHMICH
Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and...
MARY SCHMICH
On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p...
MARY SCHMICH
I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew...
MARY SCHMICH
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha...
MARY SCHMICH
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ...
MARY SCHMICH
Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air...
MARY SCHMICH
Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye...
MARY BERRY
Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
MARY CHENEY
One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ...
MARY BARRA
I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O...
MARY BERRY
When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that...
MARY BARRA
If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
MARY BERRY
I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan...
MARY BERRY
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J...
MARY BUCKLEY
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
Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTY
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY
Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci...
MARY KARR
But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhi...
MARY SHELLEY
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
MARY STEWART
Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are...
MARY DOUGLAS
When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.&#...
MARY MATALIN
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY
There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a gene...
MARY AUSTIN
When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of he...
MARY AUSTIN
Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.
MARY AUSTIN
We have 60 hills of rhubarb now. When we bought the farm in 1946 we found it coming up in the pastur...
MARY AUSTIN
If you are not at your ideal body weight and are not active, over time, you have a risk of diabetes.
MARY AUSTIN
Our emergency preparedness is always an ongoing priority. We're constantly working on it at the Clin...
MARY AUSTIN
The Stoughton tornado was probably a motivator as well, because that could just as easily have been ...
MARY AUSTIN
What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, bu...
MARY AUSTIN
People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker
MARY AUSTIN
These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity i...
MARY AUSTIN
The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me.
MARY ROACH