Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

Blaise Pascal

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

Benjamin Franklin

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

Ellen Glasgow

I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.

John O. Brennan

Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.

Thomas Carlyle

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Doug Larson

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

Walt Whitman

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

Luis Bunuel

Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it.

Paul Brunton

There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.

Moli

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

Oscar Wilde

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

Thomas Carlyle