I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

William Lyon Phelps

You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

Source Unknown

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

Susan Orlean

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

Jimmy Dean

At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

Vinton Cerf

There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.

Cyril Connolly

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

Helen Garner

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion.

Mollie Marti

What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?

George Eliot

'Tis mad idolatry to make the service greater than the god.

William Shakespeare

Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.

Henry W. Fowler