It's so tempting to try to do it all, so as not to miss out. But to do all of those 'good things' means you'll do none of them well.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

Charles Caleb Colton

Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

Terence

Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.

Kate Millet

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Norman Mailer, The Deer Park

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Ray Bradbury

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have

Joyce Meyer

It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.

Iain Duncan Smith

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

George Farquhar

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

Karl Von Clausewitz

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Thomas Carlyle