Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

For a more than miffed Midnight, fate was for emperors, fools and soppy lovers: - fate was the self-important egotism of those doing well, the sheer unbearable arrogance of the living and loved.

Tom Conrad

...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...

Aristotle

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.

Henry David Thoreau

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

Chris Evans

A jack of both sides, is before long, trusted by nobody, and abused by both parties.

Proverb

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

Rene Descartes

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

Lou Brock, "Christian Science Mo

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Eleanor Roosevelt

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Thomas Sowell

Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually.

Rose Saperstein

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Jim Bishop, A Bishop's Confessio