Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention...
Women may fail when there is no strength in man
Men should be what they seem.
The mind can never be satisfied.
Money & success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.
Teach self denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.
Preposterous ass, that never read so far To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man After his studies or his usual pain? (The Taming of the Shrew, 3.1.10-13), Lucentio
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
Oh, listen. Listen!' A sound like a big crowd a good way off, excited and shouting, getting closer. We stand up and scan the empty sky. Suddenly there they are (the geese), a wavering V headed directly over the hilltop, quite low, beating southward d...
all those nights with the phone warming the side of my face like the sun.
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
Remember that every man is a variation of yourself
Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
Life... is a paradise to what we know of death.
Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
It was soldier's went marching over the rocks, and still they came in watery flocks, because it was spring and the birds had to come, No doubt that soldier's had to be marching, and that the drums had to be rolling, rolling, rolling
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendos The blackbird whistling Or just after.
We live in an old chaos of the sun.
One must read poetry with one's nerves.
