Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

Phyllis McGinley

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

George Orwell

So little done, so much to do.

Cecil Rhodes

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

Charles Dickens

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants...

Joseph Addison

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

Jacob Bronowski

In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

Leo Tolstoy

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.

Gary Numan

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

Joni Mitchell

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Michael J. Gelb