Give a man a centimeter and he'll think he's a ruler.
“My job is to scream cockle-doodle-doo. Don't blame me if the sun doesn't rise.”
“Odessans' worst fear is change, because what if we make a change and our situation gets worse?”
“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”
“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”
“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”
“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”
“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”
“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”