The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants.
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for; This is to be a trickster; and to filch Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth, Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend, You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me, Is what, when done with a less dainty grace, Plain folks call "Theft.
As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth. " And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!
Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.
She grinned at me. 'You got types?' 'Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.
If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.
I rarely repeat playing the same role in a show. I figured I'd plumbed 90 percent the first time around, so let's move on to something where I'm starting from scratch.