I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.
There is room in the halls of pleasure For a long and lordly train,But one by one we must all file onThrough the narrow aisles of pain.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Solitude (l
Architecture is petrified music.
Felix E. Schelling
Be careful how you live; you will be the only Bible some people ever read.
William J. Toms
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
Jean Toomer
The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.
Lord Justice Topes
I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.
Benicio Del Toro
I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood.
R. A. Torrey
I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.
If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; But it you make but little of Christ, He will make but little of you.
It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.
Alfred Torrie
When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to the conclusion that the successful players had the Three Cs: Confidence, Composure, Concentration.
Bob Toski
Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.
Cyril Tourneur
I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.
Dr. Paul Tournier
Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.
J. T. Towbridge
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Atwood H. Townsend
It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
Peter Townsend
A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
Ezra Pound
If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.
There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.
The lack of money is the root of all evils.
Mark Twain
Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
Edward Gibbon
God help the patient.
Lord Mansfield
Not having the information you need when you need it leaves you wanting. Not knowing where to look for that information leaves you powerless. In a society where information is king, none of us can afford that.
Lois Horowitz
Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.
Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice.
Stanley Horowitz
I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.
Vladimir Horowitz
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
Doug Horton
Growing old is not growing up.
Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
Drive slow and enjoy the scenery -- drive fast and join the scenery.
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.
Carl Gustav Jung
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
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