Just because they're a story doesn't mean they're not real.

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

Jim Davis

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Hugo Black

A true initiate will never force anyone who has not reached a certain level of maturity to accept his truth.

Franz Bardon

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Samuel Pepys

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Albert Einstein

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Robert Collier

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Samuel Johnson

No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.

H. L. Mencken

The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.

Albert Einstein

None but a mule denies his family.

Arabic Proverb

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

Roberto Cavalli

In a certain sense every creative person is a reformer, but this does not mean that he must be in his work a propagandist for good roads, shorter hours, and a low tariff. All these are excellent things, but they need not be the concern of the artist.

Heywood Broun, "New York World",