#only

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#child #children #consults #does #flatters

The only safe thing is to take a chance. ↗

— Mike Nichols

#only #safe #take #take a chance #thing

If only…the saddest words in the English language. ↗

— Kristan Higgins

#sad #english

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. ↗

— Plato

#individuals #into #liberty #lies #only

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. ↗

— Lady Bird Johnson

#community #democratic #entrance #interest #library

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#earning #living #nobly #only #think

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#never #only #robs #saps #sorrow

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised. ↗

— Freya Stark

#almost #always #being #comfort #great

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. ↗

— Edith Head

#clothes #designer #good #her #only

In a mad world, only the mad are sane. ↗

— Akira Kurosawa

#only #sane #world