Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Watching my sister glowing I wonder why, if the sun is so warm, it doesn't dry her tears. Sunlight is supposed to do that, I think, sunlight should dry all the rain.

Jillian Madoff

Time takes away the grief of men.

Desiderius Erasmus

Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.

John Peers

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

Mary Astell

Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Proverb

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

Sir Winston Churchill

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

T.H. White

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.<br/>Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.<br/>Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.<br/>Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.<br/>Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.<br/>Elves are terrific. They beget terror.<br/>The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.<br/>No one ever said elves are nice.<br/>Elves are bad.

Terry Pratchett

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

Wynton Marsalis

Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

Mae West