War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time which gives him leisure to contrive and furnishes as ability to execute military plans.
Niccolo Machiavelli
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world and droop. Sick of its business of its pleasures tired how gracious how benign is solitude.
William Wordsworth
In life unlike chess the game continues after checkmate
Isaac Asimov
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. Somerset Maugham
I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.
Charlie Sheen
Every war when it comes or before it comes is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
George Orwell
I'm almost like three people. There's me the Dolly the person. There's me the star. And then there's me the manager.
Dolly Parton
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
Will Rogers
