But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

Stephen King

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

William Arthur Ward

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

Benjamin Netanyahu

A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life are forgotten. All the goodly company of the excellent and great sit around my table, or look down on me from yonder shelves, waiting patiently to answer my questions and enrich me with their wisdom. A precious book is a foretaste of immortality.

Theodore L. Cuyler

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Joseph Joubert

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

Thomas Alva Edison

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Virginia Woolf

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

Jimmy Buffett

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Orison Swett Marden

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Emily Dickinson

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditations and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the c

Samuel Johnson