Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.
I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
If your name is Alex Andrew Aaron, and you are a straight-A student, is it because your initials are AAA, because your first middle, and last names are all first names, or because a business named after your initials offers 24-hour roadside assistanc...
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affor...
The day is short and work lasts a long time.
The fool has to do at last what the wise did at first.
Eternal peace lasts until the next war.
The vulture embraced the chicken until its last breath.
In fact, my New Year's resolution every year, and I'm Jewish so I get two New Years a year, is to meditate, and I fail every time.
In February 1912, ancient China came to an end when the last of three millennia of Chinese emperors abdicated. Imagine twentieth-century Italy coming to terms with the fall of the Roman empire or Egypt with the last pharaoh abdicating in 1912. For Ch...
If you don't want them to find you, changing your last name seems a fairly elementary first step. Trust me, I'm an expert. I've watched a lot of spy movies.
Hestia shook her head. "I am here because when all else fails, when all the other mighty gods have gone off to war, I am all that's left. Home. Hearth. I am the last Olympian
I've asked around and haven't found a B.A. yet who doesn't still have nightmares (and I don't speak figuratively) about not being able to find the room where the exam is to be given or about realizing at the last moment that he has not once attended ...
That's the thing with Holy Moses: big as a house and scary as heck if you don't know him, but Charley Manson and his whole family could come parading through here and he'd give them you room key for a slice of sharp cheddar." --Ms. Fisher, The Last S...
You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as...
Russell Hammond: And you can tell Rolling Stone magazine that my last words were... I'm on drugs! William Miller: Russell! I think we should work on those last words! Russell Hammond: I got it, I got it. Last words: I dig music. I'm on drugs!
Her memories were beads jumbled loose in a box, unstrung.
In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.
Now is the time to ask yourself, what you believe.
Even today, I've no idea what the truth is, or what I did with it.
There's trouble in every house, and some in the street.--Irish Proverb
