Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites instead it fragments.

Maggie Gallagher

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

Margaret Carty

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

Billie Jean King

He who does not know one thing knows another

African Proverb

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

William Osler

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

Greta Garbo

If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.

Samuel Johnson

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Marguerite Blessington

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Karl Kraus

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

Charles Rangel

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

E. M. Forster