It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or in cold weather, by day or by night, dragging an engine at their heels, I'm astonished to perceive how good a purpose the level of excitement is made to serve.

Henry David Thoreau

He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Proverb

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Orison Swett Marden

The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

Richard J. Daley

What is called vainglory is self-satisfaction, nourished by nothing but the good opinion of the multitude, so that when that is withdrawn, the satisfaction, that is to say, the chief good which every one loves, ceases. For this reason those who glory in the good opinion of the multitude anxiously and with daily care strive, labour, and struggle to preserve their fame. For the multitude is changeable and fickle, so that fame, if it be not preserved, soon passes away. As every one, moreover, is desirous to catch the praises of the people, one person will readily destroy the fame of another; and, consequently, as the object of contention is what is commonly thought to be the highest good, a great desire arises on the part of every one to keep down his fellows by every possible means, and he who at last comes off conqueror boasts more because he has injured another person than because he has profited himself. This glory of self-satisfaction, therefore, is indeed vain, for it is really no glory.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza, E

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

Mitch Albom

They may not remember what you said. They may not remember what you did. But they will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

John Ruskin

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Erica H. Stux

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.

Laurence J. Peter

In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

Helen Reddy