19th Century Morals Quotes

#1. Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter; its mistakes are not forgotten because they are still there to confuse us.

Albert Murray

#2. When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

Alexander McQueen

#3. The love between man and woman is a voluntary pact in which the one who falls short is only guilty of perfidy, but when a woman has become a mother her duty is greater because nature has entrusted the human species to her. If she fails then she is a coward, unworthy and infamous.

Guy De Maupassant

#4. A youth is susceptible to the influence of idealist notions. As a person ages, they notice a gap between their expectations and reality and they grow more pessimistic about the world and their ability to live up to the lofty notions that inspired a younger self.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#5. So...will you be my wife?"...
"I'd love to be your wife. Where should we take our honeymoon?

Terry Spear

#6. But some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.

Thomas Hardy

#7. A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.

Albert Einstein

#8. The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Walter Bagehot

#9. Everybody has a story that must be told.
Your life is your story.
Tell your story.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

#11. You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.

David Markson