I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
Doris Lessing
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
To dream by night is to escape your life. To dream by day is to make it happen.
Stephen Richards
What is a hero without love for mankind.
Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
Laughter is by definition healthy.
Literature is analysis after the event.
What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
Pearls mean tears.
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
John Winthrop
Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving
Steve Winwood
He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.
W. Wirt
If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.
Alfonso The Wise
Abstinence is the surety of temperance
Plato
Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.
Witherspoon
Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.
Georgia Witkin
When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
Katarina Witt
What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!
John Wolcot
To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
Naomi Wolf
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow
Samuel Johnson
Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.
Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I have women banging on my door, I have no time to answer it.
Scott Wolf
No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.
Beran Wolfe
Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.
Charles Wolfe
It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
Elsie De Wolfe
As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.
William Shakespeare
You cannot hope to bribe or twist (thank God!) the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.
Humbert Wolfe
In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.
Voltaire
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
Nero Wolfe
It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it
Henry David Thoreau
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