Science views the blood-building and character-influencing ur-organism water merely as a chemical compound and provides millions of people with a liquid prepared from this point of view, which is everything but healthy water.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Abraham Lincoln

If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.

William Shakespeare

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Wallace Stegner, The Spectator B

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Samuel Johnson

My everyday beauty routine is always rushed and pretty simple.

Cate Blanchett

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Lao Tzu

What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand.

Adlai Stevenson

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Plutarch

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

Helen Rowland

Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

Clare Boothe Luce

It takes all sorts to make a world.

English Proverb