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An ideal wife is any wife who has an ideal husband
View quotes by Booth Tarkington

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
View quotes by Arnold Toynbee

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
View quotes by E F Schumacher

My ideal relaxation is working on upholstery. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
View quotes by Pamela Anderson

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
View quotes by Arthur Ashe

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. - Of Human Bondage
View quotes by W Somerset Maugham

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
View quotes by George Santayana

This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
View quotes by Lord Byron

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
View quotes by Simone De Beauvoir

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.
View quotes by Baron Pierre De Coubertin

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
View quotes by George Sand

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
View quotes by Adlai Stevenson

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
View quotes by Joan Rivers

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
View quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I do not think of the prison population in terms of an ideal number. We will not be constrained by some artificial level.
View quotes by Ann Widdecombe

Jesus Christ would be quite interesting, but Bart Simpson would be brilliant. [on his ideal dinner guest]
View quotes by Steve Harmison

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.
View quotes by Adlai E Stevenson

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
View quotes by Edgar Watson Howe

Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
View quotes by Eric Hoffer



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