The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

Katey Sagal

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

Imelda Marcos

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Edward Dahlberg

The philosopher seeks to hear within himself the echoes of the world symphony and to re-project them in the form of concepts.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Technology is not good, it's neutral.

Tom Shadyac

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Paul Scherer

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This mesa plain had an appearance of great antiquity, and of incompleteness; as if, with all the materials for world-making assembled, the Creator had desisted, gone away and left everything on the point of being brought together, on the eve of being arranged into mountain, plain, plateau. The country was still waiting to be made into a landscape.

Willa Cather

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Phyllis McGinley