There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

Gertrude Stein

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

Nicholas Sparks

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

Alfred Marshall

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

Erma Bombeck

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

Pierre Auguste Renoir

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Baltasar Gracian

Where others see complexity, the person of action sees the thing that needs to be done.

Michael Lipsey

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

Plato, Phaedo

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

George Bernard Shaw

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Natalie Portman

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Marcus Aurelius