Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

Hosea Ballou

love is fear but fear is death

kruz lex

It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education can take no account of so aristocratic a good. I do not believe this. The joy of mental adventure is far commoner in the young than in grown men and women. ...It is rare in later life because everything is done to kill it during education.

Bertrand Russell

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Robert Hall

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.

Michael Jackson

You speak truth, said Themistocles; I should never have been famous if I had been of Seriphus; 4 nor you, had you been of Athens.

Plutarch

I can't complain about my life. I have a really nice life. I have a great family and I live in a gorgeous part of the country.

Mary Decker

The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When th

Marilyn Monroe

A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.

Jane Austen

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.

Napoleon Hill

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

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The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

Woodrow Wilson