I don't think it's ungracious to seek cosmetic help - it has crossed my mind from time to time, and I have been tempted. But it's too short-term. Once you start down that road, you have to keep going.
I was always in trouble at school for what I was wearing; I was never made a prefect because of the way I used to dress - I ripped my tights, my skirts were too short, all sorts of things.
If we marry we stay too poor to educate, and when we educate, it would be too late to enjoy the life.
Life is an ephemeral business, and we waste too much of it in judging where it would beseem us better to accept, that we ourselves may come to be accepted by such future ages as may pursue the study of us.
Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain.
It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectly comfortable, and instead covered their heads with something foreign and uncomfortable. Very often it was actually their own hair made into a wig. Pe...
Vitamin B proved to be not one vitamin but several, which is why we have B1, B2, and so on. To add to the confusion, Vitamin K has nothing to do with an alphabetical sequence. It was called K because its Danish discoverer, Henrik Dam, dubbed it "koag...
I adapted an O. Henry short story called 'By Courier,' which got nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar.
I personally am not a shorts-wearing guy. That goes for any form of shorts, beside sports shorts, that I have to wear.
Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.
Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends
The Timeline of a Life being Long or Short, is Computed on the Benchmark of How You Live It...
Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
How to be happy in life? The short and simple answer is to SMILE more often!
I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.
... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.
