Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray
This business about being flung out of paradise is his gift to me. I'm glad I got out; it was getting too hot in there.
Morton Feldman
If he really doesn't listen to organizations like the Commonwealth or United Nations, or countries like the United Kingdom, United States...he's living in a fool's paradise.
Hasan Sharif
They said they had found a little piece of paradise on earth.
Pauline Welch
This can't just be a cleanup, it has to be a turning point. If we build it back like it was, then we'll be living in a fool's paradise.
Mark Davis
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Karl Popper
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
Phillips Brooks
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Laurie Anderson
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry
The only paradise is paradise lost.
Marcel Proust
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
Simone Weil
Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.
Anne Bancroft
I love living here because it's very peaceful. It's kind of a little paradise, isolated and beautiful. You get a sense of community because so many of your neighbors are your colleagues.
Terry Ballman
The location of Paradise has far more to do with the person than the place.
Nathaniel Bronner Jr.
Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
Thomas Traherne
It leaves it to the audience's imagination at the end [as the bomb goes off]. It goes blank white. We're living in the blank white and it's definitely not paradise.
Ron Kehrmann
New York is a shopper's paradise, and people know that you can go to Chinatown or Broadway in Manhattan to buy a knock- off. It's even mentioned in tourist guides.
Barbara Kolsun
This is a shorts' paradise. There's nothing to buy here. Any rallies are getting smacked.
Phil Ruffat
We appeal, as human beings to human beings. Remember your humanity and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open for a new paradise; if you cannot there lies before you the risk of universal death.
Joseph Rotblat
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
John Florio
In my life the only thing I know is football. We earned less, but we knew where we started from and then there was paradise, because this is the life of a player.
Sinisa Mihajlovic
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
Jean Rostand
Conformity, humility, acceptance... with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.
Robert Lindner
A corporation prefers to offer a job to a man who already has one To obtain entry into paradise, in terms of employment, you should be in a full state of grace.
Alan Harrington
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Evelyn Waugh
I don't want to underestimate the difficulty of this, because Colombia is paradise next to Afghanistan.
Anne Patterson
Two Tickets to Paradise.
Bill Graham
I felt I was getting as near to paradise on this earth as any man could ever get.
William Shirer
Nowhere in the world do supporters love their clubs more than in England. England is paradise to play in.
Arjen Robben
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.
Doug Larson
I felt obligated to see the movie. But it doesn't show the end, it just fades to white. I'm living at the end, and it's definitely not paradise.
Ron Kehrmann
There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.
Franz Kafka
Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
George William Russell
In Paradise, that's one of the nice things about how charters operate, ... We're very much connected with the district. And we pay for those administrative services, so it keeps us connected.
Chris Reid
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
Robert Southey
Paradise Now is artistic terror.
Yossi Mendellevich
HOURI, n. A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul. By that good lady the Houris are said to be held in deficient esteem.
Ambrose Bierce
Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.
Thomas Howard
It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Evelyn Waugh
It's the price of paradise, ... People are drawn to landscapes.
Robert Hartwig
That's not much to pay to gain admission to an earthly paradise. And who would not want to dwell for a little while in a place that conjures up images of a thousand and one Arabian nights?
Kamel Louafi
Why is it that almost every human culture yet discovered has found it necessary to believe in an afterlife of some sort, but not a 'before-life?' Why are there so many versions of Heaven, Paradise and The Great Beyond, but almost none about The Great.
Judith Hayes
The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise.
Thomas Gray
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