We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Malcolm De Chazal

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Viktor E. Frankl

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

Marie Windsor

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

George Orwell

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Mark Twain

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Katharine Hepburn

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

William Ralph Inge

Good thoughts can become reality with Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

Christian Lous Lange

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

Michael Bergin

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

Winfield Scott Hancock