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# Weekend Words: Two
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/weekend-words-two/
- Published: 2015-11-01T15:15:28.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:30:28.000Z
- Description: “Driven by fears that an aging population could jeopardize China’s economic ascent,” writes Chris Buckley in The New York Times, “the Communist Party leadership ended its decades-old ‘one child’ policy on Thursday, announcing that all married couples would be allowed to have two children.”
- Author: Weekend Editors
- Tags: Opinion, Weekend, Weekend Words, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:13 (2014, 2015, part 3)

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Bartolomeo Bimbi, “Two-Headed Lamb” (1721), oil on canvas, 58 x 72 cm. Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence (Image via Web Gallery of Art)

“Driven by fears that an aging population could jeopardize China’s economic ascent,” [writes](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/world/asia/china-end-one-child-policy.html?%5Fr=0&ref=hyperallergic.com) Chris Buckley in *The New York Times*, “the Communist Party leadership ended its decades-old ‘one child’ policy on Thursday, announcing that all married couples would be allowed to have two children.”

> A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.  
>  
> **—Joyce Carey**

> There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one’s own industry, or by the stupidity of others.  
>  
> **—Jean de la Bruyere**

> Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.  
>  
> **—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe**

> There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.  
>  
> **—Albert Schweitzer**

> There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.  
>  
> **—Genesis 7:9 (KJV)**

> Four legs good, two legs bad.  
>  
> **—George Orwell, *Animal Farm***

> Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.  
>  
> **—Henny Youngman**

> There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.  
>  
> **—Ayn Rand**

> Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.  
>  
> **—Emma Goldman**

> There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.  
>  
> **—Frida Kahlo**

> Personally, I like two types of men – domestic and foreign.  
>  
> **—Mae West**

> Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that’s not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.  
>  
> **—Lance Armstrong**

> When the train, it left the station  
> with two lights on behind  
> When the train, it left the station  
> with two lights on behind  
> Well, the blue light was my blues  
> and the red light was my mind.  
>  
> **—Robert Johnson, “Love in Vain”**

> It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle marry one another so as to make only two people miserable instead of four.  
>  
> **—Samuel Butler, letter to Miss E. M. A. Savage**