The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labor to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.

A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

Charles Dickens

To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

Cus D'Amato

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

Horace

There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

Mark Twain

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

Thurgood Marshall

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

Isabel Allende

I am passionate about talking to women about their breast health.

Elizabeth Hurley

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Mark Twain

'Tis after death that we measure men.

James Barron Hope

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.

Di Cavour

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

Jane Austen