There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn.

It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes...

S.E. Hinton

In travelling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Samuel Johnson

Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable systems built upon arithmetical statements, that I am rather inclined to regard that science as the instrument of national calamity.

Jean-Baptiste Say

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.

Steve Albini

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.

George Gurdjieff

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Benjamin Franklin

I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.

Jesse Barfield

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

John Lubbock

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley

Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?

William Shakespeare

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

Danny Kaye

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

R. E. Shay