Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters;But when low dunces will affront,What man alive can stand the brunt?http://www.netpoets.com/classic/poems/062008.htm

Jonathan Swift, The Sick Lion an

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

J. Michael Straczynski

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

Johann von Goethe

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

Joan Jett

The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

Jeremy London

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

Ellsworth Huntington

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Sir Thomas Browne

Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.

Dan Stevens

It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely.

Jonathan Coe

There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.

Sri Chinmoy

To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.

Marcel Jouhandeau