Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

Anton Chekhov

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Octavio Paz

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Vincent Van Gogh

Why does the blind man's wife paint herself

Benjamin Franklin

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, Make me feel important. Never forget this message when working with people.

Mary Kay Ash

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

J. J. Abrams

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

William Hazlitt

It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes and yet she will be woman still.

Ernestine Rose

Understanding is a two-way street.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

George Bernard Shaw

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

H. A. Hodges