Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

Alfred Austin

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Paul Harvey

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.

W. J. Cameron

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

Kevyn Aucoin

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

Bette Howland

I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.

Martina McBride

Don't go downhill just because it's easy. The view is only visible from the top.

Destiny Booze

As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.

Linda Kaplan Thaler

What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.

W. H. Auden

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Jonathan Swift

I for one find a casual destruction of a man's life even more repugnant than a determined one.

Lois McMaster Bujold