Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.

James Buchan

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

Oscar Wilde

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

Calvin Coolidge

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

Stephen King

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Source Unknown

She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile like sunshine when he saw her coming. Who would dance with her on her balcony, keep his promises and know her secrets, and make a tiny world wherever he was, with just her and his arms and his whisper and her trust.

Laini Taylor

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Kahlil Gibran

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

Ray Kroc

I bought my brother some giftwrap for Christmas. I took it tothe Gift Wrap Department and told them to wrap it, but in adifferent print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.

Steven Wright

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Quintilian