A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.

Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are.

Alice Walker

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Jack Kerouac

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Meister Eckhart

Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.

Source Unknown

People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.

P.K. Shaw

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear

Mark Twain

You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.

Bruce Sterling

If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.

Mark Hanna

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

Socrates

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

Tom Holt