Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Stephen Leacock, Literary Lapses

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

T. S. Eliot

I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.

Demi Moore

Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food.

Proverb

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Thomas Moore

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.

William H. Hunt

One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

Kurt Vonnegut

Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.

Olga Korbut

The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife.

David Ogilvy

If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Men die, but sorrow never dies;

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, The Crad

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

George Bernard Shaw