It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

Roger Bannister

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

John Green

Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait...The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply dont count.

Robert Anthony

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.

Harold Ruopp

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

Amy Winehouse

I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.

Brittany Snow

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

Faith means not wanting to know what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

Bowie Kuhn

I saw a small bottle of cologne and asked if it was for sale.She said, It's free with purchase. I asked her if anyonebought anything today.

Steven Wright

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

Hillary Clinton

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

C.S. Lewis