Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

Giovanni Falcone

love has a very dulling effect on the brain

Elizabeth Peters

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.

Eydie Gorme

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

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One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

Thornton Wilder

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.

Anon.

We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God.

Duane Chapman

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

John Tillotson

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson