The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.


Sir Arthur Helps

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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these th...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to b...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any cond...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN
Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh,...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN
A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivat...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in partic...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
ARTHUR MURPHY
I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serio...
ARTHUR LAFFER
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.
ARTHUR ERICKSON
After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmo...
ARTHUR SMITH
So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilitie...
ARTHUR ROCK
Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. B...
ARTHUR LEVITT
A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up witho...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG
Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and ...
ARTHUR WINTER
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shal...
ARTHUR SHOPENHAUER
The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man ...
ARTHUR BRISBANE
His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.
ARTHUR BAER
An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.
ARTHUR BAER
If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs
ARTHUR BAER
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end
ARTHUR BAER
The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness
ARTHUR BAER
In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and ...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG
Moral values, if you want to use them correctly, begin with love of your fellow man. And if they tea...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG
Do the Americans want democracy in the Middle East? Do the Americans want the oil wells of Iraq and ...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG
I have never been a dove because I'm some kind of woolly-eyed liberal. I have been a dove from the v...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG
I wrote two political letters this morning - as a retired country gentleman, who now teaches at the ...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG
Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.
ARTHUR HERTZBERG
What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judais...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG
Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lo...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG
The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured th...
ARTHUR HERTZBERG