My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, but after one such love can love no more.

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

Sir Richard Steele

My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.

Wayne Wonder

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

Hugh Blair

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

John Kenneth Galbraith

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

Oscar Wilde

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

Jack London

Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

Source Unknown

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.

Anonymous

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

Henri Frederic Amiel