" My friends are my estate. "

Emily Dickinson US poet (1830 – 1886)

" A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim. "

Chuck Jones

" Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center. "

Winning sentence, 1990 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.

" Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories. "

Polybius, History Greek historian (205 BC – 118 BC)

" Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. "

Antoine de Saint-Exupery French writer (1900 – 1944)

" There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book. "

Saul Bellow US (Canadian-born) author (1915 – )

" Actresses will happen in the best regulated families. "

Oliver Herford

" Now is the time for all good men to come to. "

Walt Kelly US animator & cartoonist (1913 – 1973)

" To try to be better is to be better. "

Charlotte Cushman, quoted in O Magazine, December 2003 US actress (1816 – 1876)

" Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure. "

Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point

" God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it. "

Daniel Webster US diplomat, lawyer, orator, & politician (1782 – 1852)

" Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. "

H. L. Mencken US editor (1880 – 1956)

" I hope I never get so old I get religious. "

Ingmar Bergman

" Nothing is said that has not been said before. "

Terence Roman comic dramatist (185 BC – 159 BC)

" It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. "

Joseph Addison English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 – 1719)

" Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. "

Arnold Toynbee English historian & historical philosopher (1889 – 1975)

" Every crowd has a silver lining. "

Phineas Taylor Barnum US circus showman with James Bailey (1810 – 1891)

" If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. "

Marcel Proust French novelist (1871 – 1922)

" There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation. "

Henri Bergson French author, mystic, & philosopher (1859 – 1941)

" Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it. "

Samuel Butler English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 – 1902)

" Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. "

Muhammad Ali US boxer (1942 – )

" It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. "

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities English novelist (1812 – 1870)

" Excellence is best described as doing the right things right – selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly. "

Author Unknown

" Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work. "

Honore De Balzac French realist novelist (1799 – 1850)

" He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man. "

Hunter S. Thompson US journalist (1939 – 2005)

" Beginning is easy – Continuing is hard. "

Japanese Proverb

" Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown. "

Jane Austen, Emma English novelist (1775 – 1817)

" Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. "

Earl of Chesterfield

" Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine. "

Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. "

Cherie Carter-Scott, “If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules”

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