One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

Ally Carter

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

Alfred North Whitehead

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Johann von Goethe

Child! Do not throw this book about;Refrain from the unholy pleasureOf cutting all the pictures out!Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.

Hilaire Belloc, dedication to Th

Nature does nothing in vain.

Aristotle

The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature

John Berger, And Our Faces, My H

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

Olin Miller

'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

Ezra Pound

Surviving well is your finest revenge.

Morgan Nito

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

Thomas Carlyle

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

Miguel de Cervantes

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

George Burns