Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Tis better to have loved and lost. Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Tennyson

Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

Haile Gebrselassie

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

Stevie Smith

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is known by the company he avoids.

Source Unknown

To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Samuel Johnson

By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

Jane Austen

But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Ronald Reagan

It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks.

Terry Pratchett

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

Harriet Harman

At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.

Reese Hoffa