To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?

Mary Kay Blakely

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Thaddeus Golas

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

G. K. Chesterton

A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.

Sean Hampton

In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is to find the ultimate questioner - that unimaginable who has put me in this madness to answer an unanswerable question.

Kedar Joshi

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

George Bernard Shaw

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.

Richard L. Evans

One may survive distress, but not disgrace.

Scottish Proverb

I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur.

Graham Swift

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations

Kahlil Gibran

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Ogden Nash