Once upon a time there was a tavern
Where we used to raise a glass or two
Remember how we laughed away the hours
And dreamed of all the great things we would do
Those were the days my friend
We thought they’d never end
We’d sing and dance forever and a day
We’d live the life we choose
We’d fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way.
La la la la…
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
Then the busy years went rushing by us
We lost our starry notions on the way
If by chance I’d see you in the tavern
We’d smile at one another and we’d say
Those were the days my friend
We thought they’d never end
We’d sing and dance forever and a day
We’d live the life we choose
We’d fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way.
La la la la…
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
Just tonight I stood before the tavern
Nothing seemed the way it used to be
In the glass I saw a strange reflection
Was that lonely woman really me
Those were the days my friend
We thought they’d never end
We’d sing and dance forever and a day
We’d live the life we choose
We’d fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way.
La la la la…
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
Through the door there came familiar laughter
I saw your face and heard you call my name
Oh my friend we’re older but no wiser
For in our hearts the dreams are still the same
Those were the days my friend
We thought they’d never end
We’d sing and dance forever and a day
We’d live the life we choose
We’d fight and never lose
For we were young and sure to have our way.
La la la la…
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God’s grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
Defeat is a state of mind. No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality. To me, defeat in anything is merely temporary, and its punishment is but an urge for me to greater effort to achieve my goal. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.
Bruce Lee Quotes
The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there — those things the god of battle does not take account of.
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they “don’t understand” one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
Helen Rowland Quotes
Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking of self comforts, conveniences, freedoms, luxuries, or ease. Sometimes the ceaseless pin pricking of an unhappy, discontented, and selfish spouse can finally add up to serious physical violence. Sometimes people are goaded to the point where they erringly feel justified in doing the things that are so wrong. Nothing of course justifies sin.
Spencer W. Kimball Quotes
A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, “Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?” holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. “Yet,” added he, “none of you can tell where it pinches me.
Plutarch Quotes
You can’t stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
Show us a man
Who never makes a mistake
And we will show you a man
Who never makes anything
The capacity for occasional blundering
Is inseparable from the capacity
To bring things to pass
The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes
Are the men who sleep at Greenwood
H. L. Wayland Quotes
I have found that
I always learn more from my mistakes
Than from my successes
If you aren’t making some mistakes
You aren’t taking enough chances
John Sculley Quotes
I believe in recovery
And I believe that
As a role model
I have the responsibility
To let young people know that
You can make a mistake
And come back from it
Understand that
Most problems are a good sign
Problems indicate that progress is being made
Wheels are turning
You are moving toward your goals
Beware when you have no problems
Then you’ve really got a problem….
Problems are like landmarks of progress
Scott Alexander Quotes
Problems are the price of progress
Don’t bring me anything but trouble
Good news weakens me
Such a wife as I want…
Must be young
Handsome
I lay most stress upon a good shape
Sensible a little learning will do
Well-bread, chaste, and tender.
As to religion
A moderate stock will satisfy me
She must believe in God
And hate a saint
Alexander Hamilton Quotes
The majority of persons
Choose their wives with
As little prudence as they eat
They see a troll
With nothing else to recommend her
But a pair of thighs
And choice hunkers
And so smart to void their seed
That they marry her at once
They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment
With handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks
Most men are accredited fools
Shortly after they leave the womb
Everything in life
That we really accept
Undergoes a change
So suffering must become Love
That is the mystery
Katherine Mansfield Quotes
Suffering is
The ancient law of love
There is no quest without pain
There is no lover
Who is not also a martyr
Heinrich Suso Quotes
The universe appears to me like an immense
Inexorable torture-garden.
Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion
These are its monstrous flowers
And its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering
If you commit a big crime
Then you are crazy
And the more heinous the crime
The crazier you must be
Therefore you are not responsible
And nothing is your fault
Peggy Noonan Quotes
I doubt if a single individual
Could be found from the whole of mankind
Free from some form of insanity
The only difference is one of degree
A man who sees a gourd
And takes it for his wife
Is called insane
Because this happens to very few people
Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
Man disavows
And Deity disowns me
Hell might afford my miseries a shelter
Therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths
All bolted against me
It is not the critic who counts
Not the man who points out
How the strong man stumbled
Or where the doer of deeds
Could have done better
The credit belongs to those
Who are actually in the arena
Who strive valiantly
Who know the great enthusiasm
The great devotions
And spend themselves in a worthy cause
Who at the best
Know the triumph of high achievement
And who, at the worst, if they fail
Fail while daring greatly
So that their place
Shall never be with those cold and timid souls
Who know neither victory nor defeat
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
Far better is it
To dare mighty things
To win glorious triumphs
Even though checkered by failure
Than to rank with those poor spirits
Who neither enjoy much
Nor suffer much
Because they live in a gray twilight
That knows not victory
Nor defeat
