Ursula Parrott quotes

“The only problem is whether one adds life to one's years or years to one's life.”
-- Ursula Parrott

Source : Ursula Parrott (1989). “Ex-wife”, Plume

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“An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.”
-- Ursula Parrott

Source : Ursula Parrott (1989). “Ex-wife”, Plume

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“Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.”
-- Ursula Parrott

Source : Ursula Parrott (1989). “Ex-wife”, Plume

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“Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.”
-- Ursula Parrott

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“Coolidge is the best living demonstration that, if you keep silent long enough, something fortunate may happen to you.”
-- Ursula Parrott

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“We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.”

“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”

“I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

“I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.”

“A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.”

Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.

“Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.”

“I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.”

“Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.”

“An odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream.”

“The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another's advantages or possessions to your own; you are permitted only to wish to be another.”