I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor's done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When a bonsai stops growing, you know it's dead.

Japanese Proverb

If you don't care about quality, you can meet any other requirement.

Tester

To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.

Aleister Crowley

The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much.

Germain G. Glien

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.

John George Nicolay

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

Henrik Ibsen

He was rather a low sort of pony. The fact is, he had been originally jobbed out by the day, and he never quite got over his old habits. He was clever in melodrama too, but too broad--too broad. When the mother died, he took the port-wine business.''The port-wine business!' cried Nicholas.'Drinking port-wine with the clown,' said the manager; 'but he was greedy, and one night bit off the bowl of the glass, and choked himself, so his vulgarity was the death of him at last.

Charles Dickens

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

William Shakespeare

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

Naomi Wolf

Like those statues which must be made larger than nature in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the natural size, certain truths must be strained in order that the public may form a just idea of them.

Joseph Roux

Once victim, always victim -- that's the law!

Thomas Hardy