“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”
Source: Diaries of Adam & Eve
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American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
“Outside
Gets inside
Through her skin.”
Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)
“After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.”
Source: Joe Jones
“There is nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.”
According to The quote verifier: who said what, where, and when (2006), Keyes, Macmillan, p. 91 ISBN 0312340044 , the cover of a trade magazine once credited this observation to Churchill, but it dates back well into the nineteenth century, and has been variously attributed to Henry Ward Beecher, Oliver Wendell Holmes, w:Theodore Roosevelt, w:Thomas Jefferson, w:Will Rogers and Lord Palmerston, among others. One documented use in Social Silhouettes (1906) by George William Erskine Russell, p. 218 wherein a character attributes the saying to Lord Palmerston.
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“But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.”