#so

Marriage can be made to work if both the partners can see beyond themselves and understand the limitations,needs and abilities of the other person and are willing to embrace the positive and negative aspects of each other in their understanding. But it never happens that way. We expect others to understand and comply with us while we fail to do the same. Thus marriage loses all it's sheen by the time the couple reaches middle age. ↗

— Chitralekha Paul

#philosophy #understanding #writer #writing #age

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever. ↗

— Les Paul

#bartender #beautiful #good #had #his

Lessons are not given, they are taken. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#lessons #taken

Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends. ↗

— James Payn

#friends #good-natured #hearth #high #impossible

I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair. ↗

— Donald M. Payne

#fair #i #partisan #very

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#information-overload #social-media #age

I don't mind if I show myself being cheap or unreasonable sometimes. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#cheap #i #mind #myself #show

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#anything #being #being yourself #get #into

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound. ↗

— Alicia Witt

#better #get #grow #into #more

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#comparison #consciousness #exhibition #goes #his