Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

James C. Humes

Run if you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must, just never give up.

Dean Karnazes

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Samuel Johnson

We read advertisements to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready -- even eager -- to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.

Daniel J. Boorstin

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

Joseph Glanvill

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

Carl Sagan

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

Augusto Roa Bastos

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

Anon.

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

William Butler Yeats

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

Victor Hugo

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Publilius Syrus