An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Noel Coward

There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.

Rose Wilder Lane

I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.

Danica McKellar

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

William Blake

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

C.S. Lewis

Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise.

Gordon Strachan

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

Stephen King

Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

Stephen King

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

Helen Rowland

Men should pledge themselves to nothing for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

Sophocles

It was remarked to me by the late Mr. Charles Roupell . . . that to play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth.

Herbert Spencer, In Life and Let

It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty east of the sun and west of the moon which is past the reach of all but our most desperate desiring and is finally the beauty of Beauty itself, of Being itself and what lies at the heart of Being.

Frederick Buechner