To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Khalil Gibran

Now that I'm a mom, I'm way more laid back. If you come into my house, don't look for a coaster. Forget it. There is not a piece of furniture in my house now that is too precious.

Angela Kinsey

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

Avicenna

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

Frank Moore Colby

Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.

Christopher Hitchens

There is room in the halls of pleasure For a long and lordly train,But one by one we must all file onThrough the narrow aisles of pain.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Solitude (l

I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.

Cassandra Clare

Epistemology models ontology.

John Polkinghorne

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any man could have.

Ernest Hemingway

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Louis Auchincloss

Captain of our fairy band,Helena is here at hand,And the youth, mistook by me,Pleading for a lover's fee.Shall we their fond pageant see?Lord, what fools these mortals be!

William Shakespeare