The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Business is more exciting than any game.

Lord Beaverbrook

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

Barbara Cartland

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Max Eastman

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Charles Buxton

The wishing gate opens into nothing.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own.

Cassandra Clare

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Soren Kierkegaard

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Armstrong Williams

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Harold Coffin