How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.

Proverb

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

John Marquand

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

James Thomson

If you're a generous person you'll have no trouble admitting that somebody else is good. If you're a better person you'll find it's total impossibility.

Source Unknown

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

John Wooden

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.

Angela Carter

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women

Lillian Breslow Rubin, Women of

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

Samuel Johnson

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Marshall McLuhan

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Honore de Balzac

A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.

Suzanne Collins