You're a historian. Tell me if there are any bath-tubs in history. I think they've been frightfully neglected.
"This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely."
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you love, don't waste time hanging your head and simpering. Go right up to him and say, "I love you. How about getting married?"
Captain Harvile: I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which did not have something to say on women's fickleness. Anne Elliot: But they were all written by men.
When the next brilliant flash illuminates the sky, I often find myself filled with longing, though I'm at a loss to tell you what it is that I feel my life is missing.
Even time avoids the past, so why do you bother?
We are creatures of emotion. The idea is not to stop feeling emotions, but to stop being a victim of them. This is how we take part in life and truly make the most of our time here.
The more i read about words; the more careful i am about using them
Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.