For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it.

Ogwo David Emenike

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

B. C. Forbes

To feel fit as a fiddle you must tone down your middle.

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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

Martin Luther

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

David Mitchell

I never mind about the little things when I am focused on the better things

Julie Hardesty

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.

Andrew Cohen

She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude.

Source Unknown

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Francis Yeats Brown

Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.

Charles Churchill

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

I love blackjack. But I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi circle.

Mitch Hedberg