The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

Don't tell me that worry doesn't do any good. I know better. The things I worry about don't happen.

Source Unknown

I dreamt of turrets and craggy ledges where the windswept rain blew in from the ocean with the odor of violets. A pale woman in Elizabethan dress stood beside my bed and whispered in my ear that the bells would ring. An old salt in an oilcloth jacket sat atop a piling, mending nets with an awl, while far out at sea a tiny aeroplane winged its way towards the setting sun.

Alan Bradley

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

John Keats

Forget hard work, use Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

My mother never breastfed me. She told me that she only liked me as a friend.

Rodney Dangerfield

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Remy de Gourmont

Every man dies. Not every man really lives. In the movie Braveheart

William Gordon Wallace

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

Sir Winston Churchill

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

A.E. Housman

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley