I hate birthdays.

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

Stuart Chase

For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the Enemy, all for want of Care about a Horse-shoe Nail.

Benjamin Franklin

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you... while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

John Muir

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Jean de la Bruyere

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Anais Nin

I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

Agatha Christie

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

James A. Froude

I went to the eye doctor and found out I needed glasses for reading. So, I got some flip up contact lenses.

Steven Wright

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.

Virgil

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

Seth Green

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

James Branch Cabell