Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
H. L. Mencken
With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session. Martin Van Buren
Sir George Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the coronet, and his opponent at the other.
To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road. Crystal Waters
The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other. Edmund Barton
As they went along, picking up provisions on the way?a stray mouse here, a fat chicken there?they began an argument to while away the time between bites.
You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really special to play music. Benny Green
I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species. George Bentham
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. Johnny Cash
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. Isaac Bashevis Singer
The high contrast between white and black is often used to represent opposites. In some cultures, like Chinese, white is considered to be a color that represents death.
When I had promised to pay for his information and given him an earnest, he told me that he had made two journeys between Carfax and a house in Piccadilly, and had taken from this house to the latter nine great boxes, main heavy ones, with a horse and cart hired by him for this purpose.
I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers who could tell me what I was doing between 1960 and 1974.
Jeffrey Bernard
