My dad gave me threepence to pay the fine but I spent it on a Wagon Wheel
Life is a collaboration, it's not a solo act.
You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.
My best life advice:Take the high road. No matter how much stress, or strain, or consternation you are facing, take the high road. You will never regret it.
I have heard women complain about men holding doors for them,, as if it is inherently offensive and implies that they are weak. . . . I would hold a door for anyone. . . . It has to do with noticing our fellow human beings and saying, "I recognize that you're on this planet, and I don't want a door hitting you in the face.
Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.
If you have to ask if a clothing item is a dress or a top, it is always a top.
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. If we have to fight it must be on larger issues than that.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?
I don't think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good treatment. Having more knowledge, better diagnostic capabilities, better medications with fewer side effects, can't make up for the fact that most patients are being treated by doctors, therapists, and hospitals, who are operating under constraints and incentives that reward non-treatment, non-hospitalization, non-therapy, non-follow-up, non-care. Lost to follow-up is the best outcome a health insurer can hope for.