She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony of temperament and circumstances

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo DaVinci

The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.

James A. LaFondLewis, November 1

To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never taught by those who shared the serenity of Nature. For each phase of Nature, though not invisible, is yet not too distinct or obtrusive. It is there to be found when we look for it, but not too demanding of our attention.

Henry David Thoreau

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

Aristophanes

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

George Ade

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

W. H. Auden

I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

Jenny Eclair

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well....

Sir John Mortimer, Murderers & O

I love a natural look in pictures.

Marilyn Monroe

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

Kurt Vonnegut

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

Pablo Picasso