But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
David Herbert LawrenceIgnorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty, but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
George EliotI never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Samuel ButlerImitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Charles Caleb ColtonThat's what learning is after all, not whether we lose the game but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before to apply to other games. Losing in a curious way is winning.
Richard BachThe problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is, he confuses it with feeling.
Thomas SowellIf you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.
Fran LebowitzWe can stand affliction better than we can prosperity for in prosperity we forget God.
Dwight L. Moody