Luck is believing you’re lucky.
—William Carlos Williams, 1947
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Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings.
—Anna Quindlen, 2012Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
—Charles I, 1636If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerTechnology is so much fun, but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
—Daniel Boorstin, 1978To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647What is the city but the people?
—William Shakespeare, 1608Style is the image of character.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
—James Fenimore Cooper, 1838The elephant, although a gross beast, is yet the most decent and most sensible of any other upon earth. Although he never changes his female, and hath so tender a love for her whom he hath chosen, yet he never couples with her but at the end of every three years, and then only for the space of five days.
—St. Francis de Sales, 1609Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.
—Gordon Ramsey, 2003As is the face, so is the mind.
—Roman proverb