How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!

Wrecked on the lee shore of age.

Sarah Orne Jewett

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

Samuel Butler

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Jean Rostand

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!

Oscar Wilde

I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.

Sachin Tendulkar

Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you.

Ruckett

Luck marches with those who give their very best

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable

George Bernard Shaw

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

Marcus Aurelius

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

Hannah Arendt

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; 
 For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
 And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
 This above all: to thine ownself be true,
 And it must follow, as the night the day,
 Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

Max Lerner