There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my... →
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
I would love to see Wladimir Klitschko fight Antonio Tarver for many reasons. One is Tarver talks a lot; he would build up a big fight. And Tarver is... →
Emanuel Steward