Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.

Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été.

Albert Camus

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

You can't just make me different and then leave

John Green

You only stop learning when you quit.

Ruud Gullit

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

James Galway

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Thomas Alva Edison

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.Bacon was referring to Jesus

Francis Bacon, The Advancement o

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

George Bernard Shaw

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

W. C. Fields

Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings.

Henry Cloud