Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

Alexander McCall Smith

If you appreciate the small things, you're likely to get the big ones.

Jonas Eriksson

Whatever be their degree of talents, it is no measure of their rights.

Thomas Jefferson

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Helen Rowland

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Richard M. Nixon

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.

Earvin ''Magic'' Johnson

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

Jonathan Edwards

I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.

Stephen Lewis

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

Zaha Hadid

Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

William Shakespeare

I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.

David Eddings