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To be happy you must be your own sunshine.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

Almost every Englishman imagines he is moral because he objects to immorality--in others.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

Never mix your women.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

The flowers of fashion have but fickle friends; they are the freak of the moment, much prized today, the more despised tomorrow.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

We insist that "money is the root of all evil," and behave as if it were the source of all good.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

Woman is the social barometer; she is an admirably contrived instrument for gauging the defects of her generation.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

Before forty we live forwards; after forty we live backwards.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

LOVE.--A sentiment we all entertain for ourselves, and occasionally imagine others entertain for us.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

Life is like walking through Paradise with peas in your shoes.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

There is no impertinence like the impertinence of mediocrity.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

When two laugh it is certain a misfortune has happened--to a third.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

Happiness does not depend upon surroundings, but upon disposition.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

We cross the stream of life at different places. Some wade through the shallows in a drought, others have to swim across deep waters in a storm.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

Our predecessors endeavoured to make men into machines; we are endeavouring to make machines into men.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

Wisdom is the perception of the unimportance of the things we call great, and of the importance of the things we call small.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

All is possible to woman, for woman alone may make herself impossible.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

We generally turn the sunny side of our character towards the public; the shady side towards home.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

Life is distressing insomuch as we give exaggerated importance to altogether unimportant matters. Drifting along, I have observed that we men and women disturb ourselves about trifles, overlooking in the needless excitement the innumerable beauties which wait upon the way. Every ripple is not a wave, every wind is not a hurricane. Why worry whilst we are still upon the stream? It will be time enough to trouble when we meet the sea.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

Woman is like a diamond with many facets: the imagination of man, the light which produces from them innumerable permutations and combinations of color. The character of woman is comparatively simple, but man imagines much and attributes it to her.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

Poverty is to happiness what appetite is to food--poverty enables us to enjoy the simplest pleasures; appetite, the simplest fare.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

The successful draw us up to their level; the unsuccessful down to theirs.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

It is not the woman man can be rich with who is the most companionable, but the woman he can be poor with.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

Few women think a man complete without vice.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke

It is much easier to tell a woman you love her when you do not than when you do.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke


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