#on

When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me? ↗

— Phil Donahue

#children #five #god #had #married

It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left the room. That is no excuse," returned Mr. Brownlow. "You were present on the occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and, indeed, are the more guilty of the two, in the eye of the law; for the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction." If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass — a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience — by experience. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#funny #husbands #law #marriage #matrimony

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#does #due #force #legitimate #obedience

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society. ↗

— Delphine de Girardin

#being #families #freedom #generously #harmonious

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman. ↗

— George Gissing

#buy #cheerful #hours #i #make

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. ↗

— George Gissing

#get #money #precious #proverb #says

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#am #arduous #circumstances #i #i am

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#american #american movies #appeal #because #deliver

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#americas #delivers #easy #entertainment #kind

The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#appear #available #beliefs #bring #change