I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.

Kevis Hendrickson

The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

William Howard Taft

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.

Maurice Maeterlinck

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Mary Kay Ash

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

George Santayana

As tempting as it seems to wear tennis shoes with your tux, don't do it. I think it looks ridiculous. If you're 14 years old, maybe give it a shot. In general, don't portray anything that says 'I'm too cool and I don't care.'

Paul Feig

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

George Sand

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

Henri Poincare

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Marie Beyon Ray