Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

Raoul Vaneigem

Then, wearied by the uncertainty and difficulties with which each scheme appeared to be attended, he bent up his mind to the strong effort of shaking off his love, like dew-drops from the lion's mane, and resuming those studies and that career of life which his unrequited affection had so long and so fruitlessly interrupted. In this last resolution he endeavoured to fortify himself by every argument which pride, as well as reason, could suggest.

Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Clifton Paul Fadiman

I love the male body, it's better designed than the male mind.

Andrea Newman

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

John Wooden

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Oscar Wilde

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

Robin Hayes

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

Pietro Metastasio

Music is like a huge release of tension.

James Taylor

You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. there are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.

Darwin P. Kingsley

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

Imelda Marcos

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

Lillie Langtry