So little time and so little to do.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
All the world's a cage.
Walking is man's best medicine.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
Post je objavljen 20.08.2010. u 04:14 sati.