Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

Amelia Earhart

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

Pliny the Elder

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

David Brainerd

You must not lie about trilobites, nor yet about time.

Richard Fortey

CHOW^TM contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal sweeteners; mineral oils replacing vegetable oils; fibrous materials, colorings, and flavorings. The end result was a foodstuff almost indistinguishable from any other except for two things. Firstly, the price, which was slightly higher, and secondly, the nutritional content, which was roughly equivalent to that of a Sony Walkman.

Neil Gaiman

Life was a colorful painful pageant to her, in which right and wrong were wobbly yardsticks. Values and morals varied with time and place. Sweeping righteous views, like Victor Henry's Christian morality and Rule's militant socialism, tended to cause much hell and to cramp what little happiness there was to be had. So she thought.

Herman Wouk, War and Remembrance

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

George Eliot

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

Eileen Caddy

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

Tim O'Brien

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Isak Dinesen

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

Neil Gaiman