Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

The State legislatures should be immediately urged to relinquish the right of establishing banks of discount. Most of them will comply, on patriotic principles, under the convictions of the moment; and the non-complying may be crowded into concurrence by legitimate devices.

Thomas Jefferson

As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it.

David Morrell

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

Jonathan Sacks

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway

Buying on the installment plan makes the months shorter and the years longer.

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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.

Madeleine Stowe

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.

Celine Dion

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Oscar Wilde

Better a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit.

Proverb

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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My friends are always conscious of what people think of them. As though life is something that has an audience.

Caroline Green

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Emily Bronte