Life's rewards go to those who let their actions rise above their excuses.

When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.

Calamity Jane

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.

Oliver Goldsmith

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.

George Combe

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Samuel Johnson

For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.

Alfred Nobel, said three years b

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

James Barrie

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

Joss Whedon

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Edward F. Halifax

Often quoted in forms that correspond only loosely to Hugo's original words, for example: No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.

William James, The Varieties of

I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.

Rupert Murdoch

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Paul Cezanne