A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. (Norman Douglas)
Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. (Thomas Gray)
I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means. (Oscar Wilde)
Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly. (William Shakespeare)
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. (Dudley Moore)
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. (Robert Frost)
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. (Ursula K. LeGuin)
To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches. (Cicero)
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)