I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.

Publilius Syrus

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Charles Caleb Colton

Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

George Bernard Shaw

You could appreciate the beauty of the world by trying to paint it.

Evelyn Waugh

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues

Auguste Rodin

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

Martha Washington

It's a straightforward matter of equality: it's outrageously unfair that heterosexuals shoulder alone the burden of keeping divorce lawyers in Italian sports cars

Mark Simpson

What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

Erica Jong

I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

Keith Emerson

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

Christopher Hitchens

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil