You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Well done is better than well said.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 02:46 sati.