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Jean Rostand: Certain brief sentences...

Jean Rostand: Certain brief sentences...

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be...

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James McNeill Whistler: An artist's career...

James McNeill Whistler: An artist's career...

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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This world is...

This world is...

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In...

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[E]mbarrassment and perplexity...

[E]mbarrassment and perplexity...

[E]mbarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven...

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A good writer...

A good writer...

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good...

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Henry Drummond: Therefore keep in...

Henry Drummond: Therefore keep in...

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and...

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Once in a...

Once in a...

Once in a stately passion
I cried with desperate grief,
'O Lord, my heart is black with guile,
Of sinners I...

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Carl Linnaeus: Linnea.. . ....

Carl Linnaeus: Linnea.. . ....

Linnea.. . . A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space -- from Linnaeus...

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Kate Millett: If only no...

Kate Millett: If only no...

If only no one had told them I was mad. Then I wouldn't be.

Source: The Loony-Bin...

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An aphorism ought...

An aphorism ought...

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself...

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Marie Curie: Life is not...

Marie Curie: Life is not...

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We...

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The tension between...

The tension between...

The tension between yes and no, between I can and I cannot, makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an...

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Be kind and...

Be kind and...

Be kind and considerate with your criticism. . . . It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good...

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He did not...

He did not...

He did not care in which direction the car was travelling, so long as he remained in the driver's...

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Fortune cannot be...

Fortune cannot be...

Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard...

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Laurence J Peter: There are two...

Laurence J Peter: There are two...

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never...

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Satire is traditionally...

Satire is traditionally...

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

Source:...

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Housework is what...

Housework is what...

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

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Falling in love...

Falling in love...

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the...

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Marriage is like...

Marriage is like...

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try...

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