Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire, the other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
My heart which is so full to overflowing has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
Martin Luther
This is a fault common to all singers that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked, unasked they will never desist.
Horace
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
Mahatma Gandhi
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
