Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.

Jorge Luis Borges

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Kahlil Gibran

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Plato

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

Mae West

Silence is Holy. It draws people closer together. Because those who are only comfortable with each other, can sit without speaking.

Nicholas Sparks

What, oh, what is the use of the war? Why can

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Gir

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Elbert Hubbard

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

Charles Caleb Colton

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Mary Roberts Rhinehart

People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably --why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work --for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?

Herman Melville

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

H. L. Mencken

No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake

Albert Einstein