The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.