“Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife”
Bible
“Drunkenness spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans man. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.”
William Penn
“There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.”
Andre Maurois
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
C.S. Lewis
“Changeable women are more enduring than monotonous ones. They are sometimes murdered but seldom deserted.”
George Bernard Shaw
“From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like”
George Carlin
