The habit of analysis, the ability to get under the surface of things and at the vital essentials, gives a man a tremendous advantage.

One non-revolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of permanent revolution.

Source Unknown

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Plutarch

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope.

Hal Lindsey

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks and so may no one touch you who loves you.

Eugenio Montale

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.

Rachel Carson

My grandpa notes the world's worn cogsAnd says we're going to the dogs.His grandpa in his house of logsSaid things were going to the dogs.His grandpa in the Flemish bogsSaid things were going to the dogs.His grandpa in his hairy togsSaid things were going to the dogs.But this is what I wish to state.The dogs have had an awful wait.

Anon., The Hymn of the Pessimist

That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work...It would be more useful than divination, anyway...

J.K. Rowling

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

Alexander Pope

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

Hillary Clinton

The idea that property has overcome our personalities is the single reason we'll miss the best part of our lives. It's people, not possessions that make our lives worth living.

Brian Krans

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace