We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

George Ade

If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on.

Abraham Lincoln

I like women, but you can't always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her her dog's name and then I asked, 'Does he bite?' and she said, 'No.' And I said, 'So how does he eat?' Liar!

Demetri Martin

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

Oliver Goldsmith

I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

Diane Setterfield

If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

Rabindranath Tagore

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Marcelene Cox

To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao Tzu

Beware! said the peridxis's voice in her head. Don't let It's shadowy little truth overwhelm the greater one.

Diane Duane

Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.

Thomas Merton, Love & Living