Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate times, but madly passionate people rarely make good on their madly passionate promises.

Quentin Crisp

He had come on her that morning in a moment of disarray; her face had been pale and altered, and the diminution of her beauty had lent her a poignant charm. That is how she looks when she is alone! had been his first thought; and the second was to note in her the change which his coming produced.

Edith Wharton

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

Aristotle

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.

George Santayana

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

Eugene Ionesco

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

Oscar Wilde

My kids are my life and the thought of someone taking them away from me is my worst nightmare.

Peter Andre

A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

Thomas Carlyle

My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.

Rodney Dangerfield

Calvin, what kind of trouble are you planning to make? No trouble at all, said Calvin, annoyed. Why do you think I want to cause trouble? Because you are awake.

Orson Scott Card

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

Shakti Gawain

No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want,need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart .

Stephen King