QUOTES LXXXV

Little girls want to be princesses, but little boys don't want to be princes - and from those two different starting points come all the confusions, contradictions, and cross-purposes of courtship and marriage.
Sydney J. Harris

Every bigot was once a child free of prejudice.
Sister Mary de Lourdes

The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.
Emily Dickinson

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries

When cheerfulness is kept up on principle, against all odds, it is the finest form of courage.
Ovidio Michel Magri

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brault