Language is wine upon the lips

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

Arnold Bennett, The Journals of

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Marilyn Moats Kennedy

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Epictetus

Vitamins ruined my life. Not that there was much left to ruin, but still. I know that blaming vitamins for my horrible life sounds strange. After all, vitamins are supposed to keep people healthy. Also, they're inanimate objects. But thanks to them I was stuck in the Jackson Center Mall watching my father run around in a bee costume.

Elizabeth Scott

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

Saint Ignatius

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Charles Baudelaire

The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Thornton T. Munger

I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

John Polkinghorne

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Wallace Stevens

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

Carla Bruni

Even though I never worked with her, it was still really cool to have Brooke Shields on set. She was so nice and so funny.

Atticus Shaffer