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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde

Happy, Woman, Human

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton

Love, Find, Themselves

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Good, Forward, Two

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar Wilde

Long, Woman, Her

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
Soren Kierkegaard

Friendly, Regret, Two

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
Albert Camus

Life, Die, Ourselves

But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.
Barack Obama

Family, Single, Same

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Milton Friedman

Good, Government, Paper

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
Groucho Marx

Evening, Wonderful

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley

War, Democracy, Country

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Henry Ward Beecher

True, Giving, Trying

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
Ernest Hemingway

Rock, Sometimes, Write

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
Groucho Marx

Evening, Wonderful

By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
Barbara Mandrell

Marriage, God, Pain

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Warren Buffett

Happy, Down, Hold

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
Kevyn Aucoin

Life, Heart, Short

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Victor Hugo

Happiness, Happy, Necessary

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Respect, May, Wish

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
Robert H. Schuller

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
R. D. Laing

Insanity, Insane, Adjustment

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Saint Francis de Sales

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
Alfred Hitchcock

Good, Off, Idea

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Laurence Sterne

Change, Nothing, Ideas

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Good, Takes, Students

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
Herbert Spencer

Happy, Free, Moral

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
Lord Byron

Everything, Mutual, Detest

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
Michel de Montaigne

Nature, Job, Die

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
Rudyard Kipling

Beauty, Women, Mad

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Life, Long, Made

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.
Arianna Huffington

Mother, Give, Become

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