Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Give us that grand word woman once again, and let's have done with lady; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

Loretta Young

I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

David Eddings

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Epictetus

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

Jim Rohn

Rule No. 1: Never lose money; rule No. 2: Don’t forget rule No. 1.

Warren Buffett

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

Norman Douglas

A chronicle is very different from history proper.

Howard Nemerov

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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