A balanced diet is a cookie in both hands.
The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.
I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.
A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.
There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.
All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.
As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.