I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation [and] is but a reflection of human frailty.

Albert Einstein

It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.

Dorothy Parker

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

Oscar Wilde

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

Gertrude Stein

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.

Ashurnasirpal

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Hippocrates

The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.

David O. McKay

...the taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself, existing in the same world as sex... For myself, I can enjoy the wicked pleasure of chocolate...entirely by myself. Furtiveness makes it better.

Dr. Ruth Westheimer

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

Mary Oliver

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

Terry Pratchett

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

John Millington Synge