Samuel Richardson quote: "To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!"

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Calamity is the test of integrity.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a suff...
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for...
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to ...
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we disl...
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a tr...
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the...
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Good men must be affectionate men.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be tr...
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and...
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness...
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear ...
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we e...
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

This, I suppose, makes me such a sauce-box, and bold-face, and a creature, and all because I won't b...
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

As long as my property taxes are high, I have to raise rents or make adjustments.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

You cannot imagine my emotion behind the yew hedge…
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Love is not a volunteer thing.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proporti...
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

But these great minds cannot avois doing extraordinary things!
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

But these great minds cannot avoid doing extraordinary things!
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to...
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and f...
SALLI RICHARDSON

I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the directo...
SALLI RICHARDSON

I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.
SALLI RICHARDSON

When you're in N.Y.C. and they shut down one of the bridges, this is a movie!
SALLI RICHARDSON

There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.'
SALLI RICHARDSON

When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deep...
SALLI RICHARDSON

'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand ...
SALLI RICHARDSON

You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.
SALLI RICHARDSON

I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.
SALLI RICHARDSON

I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble w...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, w...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter h...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these i...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and the...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone&...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody'...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that i...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I live in such a sweet world in the world of 'Home Improvement' that I tend to be drawn to s...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the &#...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scatte...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whol...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON

I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't ...
LATANYA RICHARDSON

I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.
LATANYA RICHARDSON

In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have ...
LATANYA RICHARDSON

Acting is in your soul.
LATANYA RICHARDSON

Look at Michelle Obama. Everyone keeps making a big deal about her arms being exposed, but don't...
LATANYA RICHARDSON

Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget ...
LATANYA RICHARDSON

I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mu...
NATASHA RICHARDSON

Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work...
NATASHA RICHARDSON

I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.
NATASHA RICHARDSON

The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hu...
NATASHA RICHARDSON

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.
NATASHA RICHARDSON

I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to b...
NATASHA RICHARDSON

As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our child...
NATASHA RICHARDSON

I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so ...
NATASHA RICHARDSON

I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about...
NATASHA RICHARDSON

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.
NATASHA RICHARDSON

What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
NATASHA RICHARDSON

I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all...
NATASHA RICHARDSON

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are ...
NATASHA RICHARDSON

The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
NICK RICHARDSON

They used to call me Cam-bones because I was so skinny.
CAMERON RICHARDSON

I can be shy, but I'm not shy with my body. Everyone is naked under their clothes - so what?
CAMERON RICHARDSON

I'm just a regular girl who likes to go snowboarding and picks her nose like anybody else. I jus...
CAMERON RICHARDSON

TSMC is ahead in terms of technology and know-how. For the higher- quality and more technologically ...
ALAN RICHARDSON

The focus this year will be on how effective companies are at cutting costs as oil prices will conti...
ALAN RICHARDSON

The dominant banks in China are trading at two to three times price to book, so Goldman is buying at...
ALAN RICHARDSON

The China growth story continues to exceed people's expectations. Recently that's driven by consumpt...
ALAN RICHARDSON

The building has stood empty for a long period of time and there are now shards of glass everywhere....
ALAN RICHARDSON

It's like a kick in the guts to him,
ALAN RICHARDSON

The fundamentals of the U.S. economy are bad and have been bad for a long time.
ALAN RICHARDSON

a long summer holiday.
ALAN RICHARDSON

so in all cases our assumptions are based on our engineering judgment with input from the people tha...
ALAN RICHARDSON

He had felt that some sort of justice had prevailed.
ALAN RICHARDSON

Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord Ideological notions are strongest amongst...
ALAN RICHARDSON

It was called the Backstreet Market, and it was just like a local hangout. That was where the kids w...
KEVIN RICHARDSON

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative proce...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is...
JAMES RICHARDSON

The most precious things in speech are pauses.
RALPH RICHARDSON

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade...
MIRANDA RICHARDSON

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly...
RALPH RICHARDSON

Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.
TONY RICHARDSON

I'd like to see that bipartisanship come back that we used to have in the House of Representativ...
BILL RICHARDSON

We cannot accomplish all that we need to do without working together.
BILL RICHARDSON

I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie...
KEVIN RICHARDSON

Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a h...
JOELY RICHARDSON

We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.
LUKE RICHARDSON

We've collaborated on things in the past, of course, but not on as big a scale as this.
BECKY RICHARDSON

But once it's open and services are being conducted, we ask that proper respect be given.
BECKY RICHARDSON

We're waiting on the surveyor to complete his work and as soon as he does, we can begin to sell thes...
BECKY RICHARDSON

All I know is he hasn't been to work since (last) Monday.
BECKY RICHARDSON

It's not just a celebration for the university, but a celebration for the townspeople.
BECKY RICHARDSON

I'm very happy for the tennis community because it'll be a viable and economical project. I've alway...
BECKY RICHARDSON

It's potentially a huge economic draw. We have a good track record of hosting events and this will e...
BECKY RICHARDSON

In comparison to some of the private cemeteries, we're in the mid- to low-range.
BECKY RICHARDSON

It'll be nice to be able to stay here for tournaments. We usually have to go to Columbus or Montgome...
BECKY RICHARDSON

We saw a few cemeteries with this. In case of bad weather, funeral homes will be able to set up unde...
BECKY RICHARDSON

I have developed my eye as a cinematographer through the craft of operating. When I am not operating...
ROBERT RICHARDSON

Sadly, cinemas with film as the primary source are disappearing. We need to remain open to change. T...
ROBERT RICHARDSON

Each subcommittee has a time frame in which they need to get their stuff finished in. Once they fina...
BETH RICHARDSON

It will not be tax dollars.
BETH RICHARDSON

The evacuation went smoothly. We practice it all the time.
BETH RICHARDSON

It was three days away from being operational.
BETH RICHARDSON

Thankfully, there were no reported injuries.
BETH RICHARDSON

All they had left to do was take the caps off, pretty much. But those things are on schedules. A few...
BETH RICHARDSON

We'll need a lot of volunteers to open their homes. We won't place any of those until after May 1 wh...
BETH RICHARDSON

Luckily, we've had an outpouring of those who have called and said they'd be happy to provide housin...
BETH RICHARDSON

There are a lot of non-profit organizations that are wanting to find a way to make money. A lot of v...
BETH RICHARDSON

It was just an unfortunate accident, but the building performed exactly how it was built to perform.
BETH RICHARDSON

I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm n...
JOELY RICHARDSON

if you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and u...
CHERYL RICHARDSON

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to ...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.
ELLIOT RICHARDSON

I think what's going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney...
BILL RICHARDSON

Over the course of my career, I have come to accept that some of my more provocative work courts con...
TERRY RICHARDSON

The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line...
ELLIOT RICHARDSON

President Clinton will, I think, lift everyone's spirit. He was a good president, an economic, b...
BILL RICHARDSON

They wanted to do a movie about the Backstreet Boys.
KEVIN RICHARDSON

Hurt shouldn’t pile up like this inside of someone. No one should suffocate beneath pain on top of...
SHARDE RICHARDSON

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
RALPH RICHARDSON

One of our goals is to unify the online experience for people so that, instead of living in all thes...
BROOKE RICHARDSON

Long term, Windows Live services have to reach beyond the PC. They have to move across devices. This...
BROOKE RICHARDSON

Microsoft and Yahoo share a commitment to deliver IM interoperability while keeping consumer securit...
BROOKE RICHARDSON

When we operate in markets around the world we have to ensure that our service complies with global ...
BROOKE RICHARDSON

This is a complex and difficult issue. We think it's better to be there with our services than not b...
BROOKE RICHARDSON

Microsoft does business in many countries around the world. While different countries have different...
BROOKE RICHARDSON

Blogging is growing, but it is still a pretty niche thing. We wanted to introduce it to a more mains...
BROOKE RICHARDSON

We've been making a lot of investments in voice, but as we looked at continuing...we had that build ...
BROOKE RICHARDSON

With the built-in base that Messenger has, and the fact that all these people are looking to communi...
BROOKE RICHARDSON

We've been making a lot of investments in voice, but as we looked at continuing...we had that build ...
BROOKE RICHARDSON

We're still waiting to see the growth story from buying all these applications, and so far we haven'...
BRUCE RICHARDSON

They were mostly worried about Oracle [bilking] them on maintenance costs.
BRUCE RICHARDSON

They were mostly worried about Oracle (bilking) them on maintenance costs.
BRUCE RICHARDSON

Fusion is not expected to be done until 2008, and then customers will evaluate the software through ...
BRUCE RICHARDSON

It's like saying the operation was a success, but we still have to figure out what to do with the pa...
BRUCE RICHARDSON

Microsoft's biggest problem is its [sales] channel.
BRUCE RICHARDSON

Software as a service is something Microsoft wanted to pretend wasn't ever going to happen. The prob...
BRUCE RICHARDSON

Software as a service is something Microsoft wanted to pretend wasn't ever going to happen,
BRUCE RICHARDSON

They'll still be in the game in five years; the question is, will they still be independent?
BRUCE RICHARDSON

Since starting the company in 1986, AMR Research has long appreciated the innovation that goes into ...
BRUCE RICHARDSON

We have plans in place that can be adapted, changed and modified to respond if we need to do that.
BUNNY RICHARDSON

We've been doing hydrogen research for a decade. Does that mean it's possible? Possible. But that's ...
BUNNY RICHARDSON

Because of the efficiency we've achieved, we don't have to replace associates one for one.
BUNNY RICHARDSON

We wanted each of the departments to have a celebration along the way.
BUNNY RICHARDSON

It's always a percentage based on a target system. You have plant targets, department targets and pe...
BUNNY RICHARDSON

I had to pick the team up. At the time-out, (Howard) told us to take it inside so I followed directi...
BRIAN RICHARDSON

It seems sometimes the president has moved onto other items on his agenda. But if you talk to folks ...
BRIAN RICHARDSON

People might not have shoes but they have a cell phone. We can turn that phone into a bank in your p...
BRIAN RICHARDSON

I think the last week has definitely changed her. This is probably the most important point in her c...
BRIAN RICHARDSON

We want to make clear that those who do want to return have the option to return to a place they kno...
BRIAN RICHARDSON

It's clear that we didn't do everything we could to safeguard ourselves from this hurricane or from ...
BRIAN RICHARDSON

It's a shame. Instead of offering constructive advice and assistance, a United States congressman is...
BRIAN RICHARDSON

[The move to e-procurement may take a while, mainly because many state and local users do not seem q...
BRIAN RICHARDSON

Some of our concerns are a lack of tools and standards for using XML as well as the fact that most o...
BRIAN RICHARDSON

It's a shame. Instead of offering constructive advice and assistance, a United States congressman is...
BRIAN RICHARDSON

We're talking about a violent situation, ... We're talking about police being shot at. We're talking...
BILL RICHARDSON

Development of this private industry in New Mexico will allow NASA and other international governmen...
BILL RICHARDSON

The string is running out. It doesn't look good. Diplomacy is on life support, ... Larry King Live.
BILL RICHARDSON

Confinement, shackles -- I wouldn't have done that. But there's no question that I think the deal is...
BILL RICHARDSON

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

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