Every day you waste is one you can never make up.

In married life three is company and two none.

Oscar Wilde

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy.

Thomas Keneally

Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back

Morrie Schwartz

To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Paulo Coelho

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

Olivia Williams

But let me beseech you, Sir, not to let this letter get into a newspaper. Tranquillity, at my age, is the supreme good of life. I think it a duty, and it is my earnest wish, to take no further part in public affairs. The abuse of confidence by publishing my letters has cost me more than all other pains.

Thomas Jefferson

Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.

Claud Cockburn

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.

Henry Ford

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Charles Baudelaire

Bad artists always admire each others work.

Oscar Wilde

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

Anthony Hope