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"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."

"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."

"If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."

"Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other."

"To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in."

"There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo."

"If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."
Explore more quotes by John Lancaster Spalding

"The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds."

"As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape."
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