We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ~Francis Bacon
If a man could have just half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. ~Benjamin Franklin
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abbe Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928
Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves. ~Eric Sevareid
People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. ~Lee Mildon
When you're green you're growing, and when you're ripe you start to rot. ~Ray Kroc
By this time next week, each guy on the Assault Committee has to pick a fight where he won't come out a hero. And not in fight club. This is harder than it sounds. A man on the street will do anything not to fight. The idea is to take some Joe on the street who's never been in a fight and recruit him. Let him experience winning for the first time in his life. Get him to explode. Give him permission to beat the crap out of you. You can take it. If you win, you screwed up. "What we have to do, people," Tyler told the committee, "is remind these guys what kind of power they still have." ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 16
Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. ~Henrik Ibsen
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. ~Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, translated by Philemon Holland
Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. ~Pam Brown
Good lawyers know the law; great lawyers know the judge. ~Author Unknown
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting. ~Dr. Seuss
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. ~Chinese Proverb
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. ~Jules Renard, Journal, 10 April 1895
Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly
The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again. ~George Miller
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of. ~Mae West
A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely! ~Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. ~John Buchan
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. ~Charles Lamb, 1830
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ~George S. Patton
Improvement begins with I. ~Arnold Glasow
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