Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

Christina Rossetti

If ants had a language they would, no doubt, call their anthill an artifact and describe the brick wall in its neighborhood as a object. in fact would be for them all that was not 'ant-made'.

C.S. Lewis

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

James B. Conant

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singing as we pass the osier bed. What are you whispering? Sorrow, sorrow. Joy, joy. Woven together, like reeds in moonlight.

Virginia Woolf

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

Christopher Paolini

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

Richard Stallman

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Naguib Mahfouz

But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it.

Ernest Hemingway

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Thomas Fuller

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Agnes De Mille