Adah Isaacs Menken Quotes

#1. Life is a lie, and Love a cheat.

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#2. Delighting in the Lord, knowing His Word, and committing yourself to Him are ways to ensure that your plans and desires for yourself match God's plans.

Elizabeth George

#3. I took myself out of the business to study film at NYU and the School of Visual Arts. I grew up on movie sets and was fascinated with the camera and behind-the-scenes work. I felt it would help my career as an actor if I knew all aspects of film.

Devin Ratray

#4. There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.

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#5. He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

Thomas Fuller

#6. Gratitude can't grow love higher than regret.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

Farley Mowat

#8. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

#9. Stand forth the one who did this thing

J.M. Barrie

#10. There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

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#11. Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

Adah Isaacs Menken