Newish friends, if they get ...

Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you\'d never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.
Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.
 Katharine Whitehorn

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[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.
 Bashar al-Assad
The Warrior Diet is the only diet today that challenges all common dietary concepts and offers a real alternative—guidelines that are not based on superficial restrictions, but rather on true principles of human nutrition.
 Ori Hofmekler
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.
My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.
 John Wesley

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No nice men are good at getting taxis.
 Katharine Whitehorn
Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.
 Katharine Whitehorn
In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.
 Katharine Whitehorn
I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.
 Katharine Whitehorn
I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is not capable of looking after himself for at least seven years (seventy in some cases).
 Katharine Whitehorn