When she first felt her son's groping mouth attach itself to her breast, a wave of sweet vibration thrilled deep inside and radiated to all parts of her body; it was similar to love, but it went beyond a lover's caress, it brought a great calm happiness, a great happy calm. ~Milan Kundera
Carelessness in dressing is moral suicide. ~Honore de Balzac
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. ~Samuel Richardson
Logic is one thing and commonsense another. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927
In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. ~Dereke Bruce
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own. ~Francis Thompson
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. ~T.S. Eliot
Science without conscience is the soul's perdition. ~Francois Rabelais, Pantagruel, 1572
Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart. ~Arthur Daley
The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes. ~Aubrey Menen
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. ~Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. ~St. Bernard
Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? ~Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch, 1970
...you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself.... You're not your name.... You're not your problems.... You're not your age.... You are not your hopes. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 18
Don't argue with an 18-wheeler. ~Author Unknown
It takes a long time to become young. ~Pablo Picasso
Life is too short to sleep on low thread-count sheets. ~Leah Stussy
New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer. ~Henry Miller
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ~Jean Paul Richter
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. ~William Makepeace Thackeray
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ~John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself. ~Clifton Paul Fadiman
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium! ~Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Part II
I enjoy mowing the lawn, it relaxes me. It gets me outdoors, it's good exercise, the freshly cut grass smells great, and the engine is loud enough that I'm sure no one else can hear my thoughts - or intrude upon them. ~Astrid Alauda