Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.

Criss Jami

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

George Santayana

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

Source Unknown

If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!

Terry Pratchett

Sleep sweetly in your humble graves, Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause; Though yet no marble column craves The pilgrim here to pause. Stoop, angels, hither from the skies! There is no holier spot of ground Than where defeated valor lies, By mourning beauty crowned!

Henry Timrod

We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

Jean Baudrillard

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough that we need to know ourselves better that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

Harold Bloom

Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

Neil Gaiman

I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Death thought about it Cats, he said eventually, Cats are Nice

Terry Pratchett

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.

Stephen King