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«A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.»
«Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.»
«Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace»
Author: Anne Shaw | About: Absence | Keywords: absence, at times, fond, fonder, fondest, unexplained
«I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.»
«A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.»
«Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.»
Author: Thomas More (Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman) | About: Memory | Keywords: fond
«A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying: `Of course I do not like green cheese: I am very fond of brown sherry.'»
«Empty heads are very fond of long titles»
«Fond of doctors, little health, Fond of lawyers, little wealth»
Author: Proverb | About: Health | Keywords: doctors, fond, lawyers
«Ever till nowWhen men were fond, I smiled and wondered how.»