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You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

The only journey is the one within.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.