Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.

Billy Corgan

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

Louise Imogen Guiney

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Oscar Wilde

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

John Wanamaker

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colours from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.

Richard Bach, Running from Safet

Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

William Blake

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

Jim Bishop

Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes

Friedrich Nietzsche

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

Will Rogers

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

Frances Conroy

It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!

Emily Giffin