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Life Quotes - Page 432

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.8, Dial Press

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.

"Quick Guide & Transcript: Review the week's headlines, Reflect on the last days of MLK". "CNN Student News", www.cnn.com. January 18, 2007.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner “The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]: The American claimant and other stories and sketches”

A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Lyman Abbott (1900). “Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott”

Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.

"China sets 7 per cent growth target, but challenges lie ahead". "PM", www.abc.net.au. March 5, 2015.