The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

About Euripides

Portrait of Euripides

Euripides (; Ancient Greek: Eὐριπίδης, romanized: Eurīpídēs, pronounced [eu̯.riː.pí.dɛːs]; c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy whose name is ascribed to surviving plays. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays...

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

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A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

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There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.

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Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

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