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Post by Gator on Feb 4, 2017 12:03:09 GMT -5
Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
Louisa May Alcott
(1832-1888)
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Post by Gator on Feb 5, 2017 12:13:35 GMT -5
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
John Milton
(1608-1674)
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Post by Gator on Feb 6, 2017 2:03:09 GMT -5
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
Henry James
(1843-1916)
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Post by Gator on Feb 7, 2017 8:19:11 GMT -5
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Aristotle
(384 BC-322 BC)
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Post by Gator on Feb 8, 2017 13:55:31 GMT -5
I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.
L. Frank Baum
(1856-1919)
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Post by Gator on Feb 9, 2017 13:21:13 GMT -5
A nation never falls but by suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
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Post by Gator on Feb 10, 2017 0:29:08 GMT -5
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
Edith Wharton
(1862-1937)
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Post by Gator on Feb 11, 2017 8:26:46 GMT -5
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
George Eliot
(1819-1880)
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Post by Gator on Feb 12, 2017 1:40:19 GMT -5
Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.
W. Somerset Maugham
(1874-1965)
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Post by Gator on Feb 13, 2017 0:20:32 GMT -5
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(1860-1935)
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Post by Gator on Feb 14, 2017 8:14:14 GMT -5
He would always feel for her that impersonal admiration which is inspired by anything very large, like the Empire State Building or the Grand Canyon of Arizona.
P. G. Wodehouse
(1881-1975)
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Post by Gator on Feb 15, 2017 1:23:52 GMT -5
In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.
Ambrose Bierce
(1842-1914)
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Post by Gator on Feb 16, 2017 15:19:57 GMT -5
The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure—that is the choicest of all.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1804-1864)
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Post by Gator on Feb 17, 2017 1:26:11 GMT -5
Oh, the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called Man! Oh, the little that unhinges it: poor creatures that we are!
Charles Dickens
(1812-1870)
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Post by Gator on Feb 18, 2017 17:13:39 GMT -5
I never reasoned on what I should do, but what I had done; as if my Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.
Henry Fielding
(1707-1754)
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