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parenting (15)

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

53 more quotes from Honore de Balzac

patience (62)

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.

See 3 more quotes from Gertrude Jekyll

patriotism (46)

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

10 more quotes from William Ralph Inge

peace (225)

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

7 more sayings from Abraham Maslow

pets (37)

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Read 42 more wisdom & wit from Josh Billings

poetry (231)

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

22 more thoughts from Andre Gide

politics (198)

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Read 24 more sayings from Franklin D. Roosevelt

positive (32)

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

Read 2 more wisdom & wit from Hans Selye

power (292)

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

58 more sayings from Henry Ward Beecher