The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

The love, the echoes of long ago you needed the world to know They are in Xanadu The dream that came through a million years That lived on through all the tears, it came to Xanadu

Jeff Lynne

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

Woody Allen

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Aristotle

Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is lost. Every good deed that's nobly done will always repay the cost.

Source Unknown

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Moliere

And what does she mean by love, anyway? People use that word and mean all sorts of things by it.

Jude Morgan

To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

George Orwell

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

Source Unknown

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

William Lyon Phelps