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All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner


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All human history attests That happiness for man,--the hungry sinner!-- Since Eve ate apples, ...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
JOHN CAGE All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave. - Lord Byron (George Gor...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them togethe...
ALBERT CAMUS We lie on the blanket, our bare bodies basking in the sun like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. O...
HENRY MARTIN All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronolog...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of ...
DONNA WOOLFOLK CROSS Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
SOPHOCLES There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) All happiness depends on courage and work.
HONORé DE BALZAC All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
JOHN GUNTHER All happiness depends on courage and work
HONORE DE BALZAC For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one...
LORD BYRON They never fail who die in a great cause.
LORD BYRON A very man--not one of nature's clods-- With human failings, whether saint or sinner: Endowed ...
J.G. SAXE Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese.
SUZANNE COLLINS My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homewo...
CHRISTINE PELOSI ...for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because sh...
DONNA WOOLFOLK CROSS There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is no other human activity that depends so much on chance as love.
TEXAS BIX BENDER GLADIOLA MONTANA You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on...
CAROLYN WELLS Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free. -...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on...
CAROLYN WELLS Why the woman is better...though she was created second she was made from Adam's side whole Adam was...
DONNA WOOLFOLK CROSS Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives ...
MONICA JOHNSON People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... Happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast
JOHN GUNTHER Adam may have been tempted by Eve but then Apples are only seasonal fruit.
AMIT ABRAHAM All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the indi...
ALBERT EINSTEIN All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the indi...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Before the war an apple tree had stood behind the church. It was an apple tree that ate its own appl...
HERTA MüLLER Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.
ROY T. BENNETT Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is wh...
B. H. LIDDELL HART Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is wh...
B.H. LIDDELL HART Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is wh...
B. H. LIDDELL HART I am a sinner, I am a worthless sinner, I am meek, but I am Yours, Lord.
GURU NANAK Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
GEORGE BURNS Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
GEORGE F. BURNS God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.
MARGARET CLARKSON History is the devil's scripture
LORD BYRON The loneliest ebb of my life came on that Christmas eve, only one day after my arrival in New York. ...
RUDOLPH VALENTINO He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.
CHINESE PROVERBS The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of hu...
STEVEN MAGEE My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker,...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.
ROY BENNETT Two brothers were discussing Adam and Eve. The 8-year-old asked: "How did Adam and Eve die?"And the ...
UNKNOWN Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as tho...
GRAHAM HANCOCK Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord.
BIBLE When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not...
JEREMY CLARKSON Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings...It's something we make inside ourselves...
CORRIE TEN BOOM The way my family always did Christmas was on Christmas Eve, it wasn't really centered around a ...
BLAKE SHELTON So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the ...
JOHN MILTON Augustine recast how people should view history, that history was not the story of the rise and fall...
THOMAS F. MADDEN How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS “When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you find that more hideous crimes have been ...
CARRIE P. SNOW We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The traffic is so slow today that I read two books, ate lunch, dinner, replied to all my emails, and...
ANONYMOUS All the hungers we have for love, for union, for happiness are given by God to lead us to him. The d...
CHRISTOPHER WEST Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
ANDY ROONEY The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, h...
PLATO The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.
E. Y. HARBURG Divine Justice demands that the rights of both sexes should be equally respected since neither is su...
ABDU'L-BAHA Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a ma...
HELEN ROWLAND One’s happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinio...
WASHINGTON IRVING In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinio...
JEREMY COLLIER Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
MARTHA WASHINGTON I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not b...
RAMANA MAHARSHI I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child s...
BRENDA UELAND Therefore wait patiently for the command of your Lord, and obey not from among them a sinner or an u...
QURAN Man (human life form) is a 'second-hand' quality of the absolute supreme Self (Parmatma, Lord). Man ...
DADA BHAGWAN Progress depends on the unreasonable man.
JULIAN GUTHRIE Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
RICHARD WHATELY Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument
RICHARD WHATELY Happiness depends upon ourselves.
ARISTOTLE Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. Ecclesiasticus 1...
BIBLE When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Go...
JENNIFER CRUSIE One’s happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.
DUCHESS PRAZLIN The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
SHARON SALZBERG I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child...
BRENDA UELAND But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because...
BIBLE For peace to exist, violence and war would also exist - Since existence of one depends on the other.
AKBAR ALI KHALIQDINA I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have c...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swel...
KHALED HOSSEINI I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispo...
MARTHA WASHINGTON I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...
MARTHA WASHINGTON I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...
MARTHA WASHINGTON One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hour...
CLIFFORD STOLL Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPER Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPER The feeling is one born of a too easy satisfaction of natural needs. The human animal, like others, ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL There are many different ideas. It depends on age and history.
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