Doe Quotes (page 117)

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• time
• feeling
• bed

You know what getting married is? It's agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you because you're the same way, and sticking by him while he slowly disintegrates. And he does the same for you. You're his responsibility now and he's yours. If no one else will take care of him, you will. If everyone else rejects you, he won't. What do you think love is? Going to bed all the time? Jane Smiley

• different
• manly
• differently

If a man does not keep pace with his companion, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Henry David Thoreau

• feeling
• less
• making

The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic. Milan Kundera

• lost
• may
• saying

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• work
• prayer
• fitness

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work. Oswald Chambers

• wise
• giving
• wise man

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. Lao Tzu

• manly
• understanding
• she

I am Emma Woodhouse. I feel for her, of her and in her. I have a different sort of snobbism, but I understand her snobbism. Her priggishness. I admire it. I know she does wrong things, she tries to organize other people's lives, she can't see Mr Knightley is a man in a million. She's temporarily silly, yet all the time one knows she's basically intelligent. Creative, determined to set the highest standards. A real human being. John Fowles

• climbing
• passion
• tree

It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them. P. G. Wodehouse

• soul
• die
• hell

Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell? Ursula K. Le Guin

• memories
• lies
• little

The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memories of us will have been effaced. Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has something for every age to investigate. nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• dream
• to live
• lively

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live ~Albus Dumbledore J. K. Rowling

• success
• world
• more

To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success. Henry Ford

• pride
• purpose
• new love

As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his ‘Yes’ to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new – the holy estate of matrimony… Dietrich Bonhoeffer

• avoiding
• manly
• society

The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure an hour. Kenneth Rexroth

• drinking
• beer
• innocent

isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? the potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? the drink that does nothing worse than incite its fans to urinate in all innocence, to gain weight in all frankness? Milan Kundera