The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women’s.
—Diane de Poitiers (French Noble)
It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our everyday duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome.
—Laura Ingalls Wilder (American Author of Children’s Novels)
There is a deportment which suits the figure and talents of each person; it is always lost when we quit it to assume that of another.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French Philosopher)
Do you know what the greatest test is’? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?
—David Halberstam (American Journalist, Historian)
The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.
—David L. Geffen (American Businessman)
It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
If you don’t make a total commitment to whatever you’re doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It’s tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.
—Lou Holtz (American Comedian)
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
—Philip K. Dick (American Novelist)
Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.
—Eugene V. Debs (American Social, Labor Leader)
It is useless to tell me not to reason but to believe—you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (English Romantic Poet)
Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.
—Margaret Laurence (Canadian Novelist)