“To try to be better is to be better.” — Charlotte Cushman
“It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.” — Pierre Corneille
“Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.” — W. Somerset Maugham
“It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.” — Hank Aaron
“Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.” — Earl Warren
“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.” — Virginia Woolf
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” — Aldous Huxley
“A hug is a great gift. One size fits all, and it’s easy to exchange.” — Unknown
“Historians are gossips who tease the dead.” — Voltaire
“A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
“I think it would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low.” — Stephen Hawking
“Alright, who’s the wise guy who turned the light out at the end of my tunnel?” — Tom Zegan
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“Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.” — José Saramago
“My heart swings back and forth between the need for routine and the urge to run.” — Unknown
“I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace.” — Earl Lovelace
“When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old you are.” — Cary Grant
“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.” — Tom Stoppard
“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.” — Winston Churchill
“There are two types of pains, one that hurts you and the other that changes you.” — Unknown
“Hypocrite – The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.” — Abraham Lincoln
“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.” — Vladimir Nabokov
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” — Willa Cather
“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!” — John Irving
“Seven months ago I could give a single command and 541,000 people would immediately obey it; today I can’t get a plumber to come to my house.” — Norman Schwarzkopf
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” — Elie Wiesel
“There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.” — E. B. White
“People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.” — Marcel Proust
“Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.” — Joyce Brothers
“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.” — Hippocrates
“You learn a lot when you know no one else is going to do things for you.” — Megan Crewe
“There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.” — Jonathan Swift
“Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it’s fresh, we’re on the ocean. Of course it’s for sale, we’re not giving it away. Of course it’s here, otherwise the sign would be someplace else. The final sign: FISH.” — Peggy Noonan
“Be great in act, as you have been in thought.” — William Shakespeare
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” — Saul Bellow
“We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.” — Gwendolyn Brooks
“Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.” — Fran Lebowitz
“Push yourself to the edge of your limits. That’s how they expand.” — Robin Sharma
“Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.” — Maurice Setter
“We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.” — Denis Diderot
“She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.” — Dorothy Parker