Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.

Ogden Nash

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

Anatole France

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Alice James

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory -- the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

Herman Melville

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

Oscar Wilde

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Josh Billings

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow -- I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Confucius

As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

Pablo Picasso

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

John Adams

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

Doris Lessing