Doubting Husband Quotes

#1. We are American at puberty. We die French.

Evelyn Waugh

#2. We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles.

Rue McClanahan

#3. Given a choice, it seems like pity would be easier to bear than mockery, but that's not true. Mockery hardens defenses; pity slips through, finds the softest places you have, and slices to the bone. Pity will break you, every time.

Erica O'Rourke

#4. Duncan, have I not told you that when you think you know something, that is a most perfect barrier against learning?

Frank Herbert

#5. It's hard to think of myself as an American, and yet I am not from India, a place where I was not born and where I have never lived.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#6. Why, God? You made man in your own image. Why then do so many lack good sense? And why is that we are so easily drawn to hate and kill each other? Why, God?

Richard Puz

#7. Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

David Gerrold

#8. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.

Maureen Johnson

#9. Mum says be careful of boys who never take anything seriously. Dad says a boy needs a good sense of humor to get through his love life. Jazz says my dad must need a sense of humor to get through his love life if he's living in the shed

Cath Crowley

#10. Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it

Edgar Allan Poe

#11. Our lives were limitless and unknowable, not perfect, but ours.

Brenna Yovanoff

#12. How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?

Theodore Dalrymple