The ideal of friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. [ Madame Swetchine ]

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Reading is useless to some people: ideas pass through their heads without remaining. [ C. Jordan ]

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. [ James Freeman Clarke ]

Of all the gifts that Nature can give us, the faculty of remaining silent, or of answering a propos, is perhaps the most useful. [ Mme. Campan ]

There may be as much courage displayed in enduring with resignation the sufferings of the soul, as in remaining firm under the showers of shot from a battery. [ Napoleon I ]

It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labor of the day is gone. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Surely no man can reflect, without wonder, upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life. [ Lord Greville ]