The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.

The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

William Cowper

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Samuel Butler

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

Fernando Flores

fire is beautifuland we know that if we gettoo close it will kill usbut what does that matterit is better to be happy for a momentand be burned up with beautythan to live a long timeand be bored all the while

Don Marquis

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Andre Maurois

Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Mark Twain

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Philo

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Carl Sandburg

So his life has flowed From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them.

Thomas Noon Talfourd

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Henry Ward Beecher

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde