We read to know we are not alone.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

Marie Corelli

It was the last weakness he meant to indulge in; and a man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

George Eliot

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Nathaniel Howe

Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark;I thank God for the NightThe healing dark.

Robert William Service, Weary, f

The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.

Brooke Shields

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

Simone Weil

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Sigmund Freud

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

E. W. Howe

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

William Feather

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

Franz Grillparzer