Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Benjamin Franklin

The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are not content to remain continent, and that in a conventionally virtuous community they do not find respectable women.

Bertrand Russell

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.

Woodrow Wilson

I think so,' said Professor McGonagall dryly, 'we teachers are rather good at magic, you know.

J.K. Rowling

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

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We all of us die, Miss Smallwood,' he interrupted. 'But we don't all of us make our lives count for something. How much better to die saving another soul than to stand safe on shore and do nothing while others perish?

Julie Klassen

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

Lawrence Durrell

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

Plato