“Some folk are wise. . .
and some are otherwise. . .”
—Tobias George Smollett
“Some folk are wise. . .
and some are otherwise. . .”
—Tobias George Smollett
“Happy the Man, and happy he alone. . .
He who can call to-day his own—
He who, secure within, can say. . .
To-morrow do thy worst—
For I have liv’d to-day. . .”
—John Dryden (“Translation of Horace”)
“Men’s natures are alike—
It is their habits that carry them far apart. . .”
—Confucius
“No man can justly censure—
Or condemn another. . .
Because indeed—
No man truly knows another. . .”
—Sir Thomas Browne
“Life is not measured
by the number of breaths you take—
But by the number of times
that take your breath away. . .”
—Patricia Schultz
“Now, here, you see. . .
it takes all the running you can do
to keep in the same place—
If you want to get somewhere else—
you must run at least twice as fast as that. . .”
—Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
“I am not over-fond of resisting temptation. . .”
—William Beckford
“Life is a jest. . .
and all things show it—
I thought so once—
But now I know it. . .”
—John Gay (“My Own Epitaph”)
“If you want success—
Figure out the price—
Then pay it. . .”
—Scott Adams
“Passion is the quickest to develop. . .
and the quickest to fade.
Intimacy develops more slowly;
and commitment more gradually still. . .”
—Robert Sternberg