If you are extremely generous, greed will run away.
Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.
We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?
Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.
The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.
When I'm in heels - and I live in heels - I take on a different posture, a different attitude, different energy.