We pass through this world but once.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Adam Smith

And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

Ernest Hemingway

So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.

Barbara Ehrenreich

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Dwight D Eisenhower, no source f

When you forget what you ultimately stand for, you rejoice in blinding ignorance. Missing the bigger picture for the near pleasure is what humans and all living beings stand for. I guess there is no alternate way either. Because it is after all a game that all are destined to play until they end up dead.

Rakesh Ranjan

This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.

Oscar Wilde

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Joanna Field

Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.

Paul Fussell

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Anthony Burgess

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

George Sand

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Psalms 39:4

Bible

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Plato