A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.
We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!
long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.
Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need
In those days, if you wanted a new car or a holiday, you'd phone up the office and they'd send you some cash. You never had a bank account. I don't know anyone from the music business in the Seventies that it didn't happen to.
Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.
Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves and flowers, is back to smooth away the wrinkles, as the rains wipe away footprints on the beach. Again a cycle of birth and death begins.