“Remember tonight for it is the beginning of always.” — Dante Alighieri
“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself.” — Charles Dickens
“Money isn’t everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.” — J. Paul Getty
“You’re either at the table or on the menu.” — Al Capone
“I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.[ed]” — Andrea Gibson
“What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.” — Andre Agassi
“The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.” — Jean Kerr
“The elephant keeps walking as the dogs keep barking.” — A proverb from India
“Rumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth.” — Will Rogers
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds.” — Patanjali
“Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
“When the axe came into the woods, many of the trees said, ‘At least the handle is one of us.'” — Turkish Proverb
“Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.” — Malcolm X
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” — Rumi
“The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.” — Andrew S. Tanenbaum
“After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how she might have been saved.” — Italian Proverb
“Son, your ego’s writing checks your body can’t cash.” — From the movie Top Gun
“It might have been done before, but it hasn’t been done by you!” — Elizabeth Gilbert
“Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.” — Addison H. Hallock
“A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.” — Danish Proverb
“We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours.” — Heidi R. Kling
“Gold gives the appearance of beauty even to ugliness; but everything becomes frightful with poverty.” — Boileau
“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.” — Robert Benchley
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” — Victor Hugo
“Comedy is tragedy plus time!” — Alan Alda
“Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.” — Gene Fowler
“Please don’t ask me what the score is, I’m not even sure what the game is.” — Ashleigh Brilliant
“Journalism is literature in a hurry.” — Matthew Arnold
“I would break my back for the ones I love, but how many would push the wheelchair for me after?” — Unknown
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
“They were the kind of people who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. [ed]” — Mae West
“Actions are destiny’s pen.” — Grenville Kleiser, Dictionary of Proverbs
“For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.” — Bruce Burton
“I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.” — Jonathan Swift
“A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they’re entitled to know everything I do.” — Lisa Kleypas, Dreaming of You
