Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.
Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.
Life does often get in the way of one's reading.
We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.
But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do. . . Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time.
Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.
I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.
Fortune confounds the wise, And when they least expect it turns the dice.
Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their minds, simply as shoemakers and tailors stand to their bodies.
Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.
The Iraqi elections were an important first step.