He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

Elizabeth Bowen

Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.

Kate Millett

I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

W.S. Gilbert

I can, therefore I am.

Simone Weil

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

Albert Barnes

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Samuel Johnson

the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.

Neal Stephenson

It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.

Anthony Robbins

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Michelangelo

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy

Kahlil Gibran