When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Rosalind Russell

An offering for the sake of offering, perhaps. Anyhow, it was her gift. Nothing else had she of the slightest importance; could not think, write, even play the piano. She muddled Armenians and Turks; loved success; hated discomfort; must be liked; talked oceans of nonsense: and to this day, ask her what the Equator was, and she did not know.All the same, that one day should follow another; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; that one should wake up in the morning; see the sky; walk in the park; meet Hugh Whitbread; then suddenly in came Peter; then these roses; it was enough. After that, how unbelievable death was!-that it must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all; how, every instant . . .

Virginia Woolf

You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Dorothy Parker

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Will Durant

True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Elbert Hubbard

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.

Edward W. Howe

The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.

Denis Diderot

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Plutarch

Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements.

Nicholas Sparks

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

Fiona Shaw

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld