Andrew Marvell
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
Virginia Woolf
Nothing has really happened until it has been described.
Ernest Hemingway
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Marlene Dietrich
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
Jane Austen
There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
George Orwell
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
D. H. Lawrence
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
Carl Sandburg
I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.
Pablo Picasso
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Quintilian
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Kathleen Norris
Life is easier than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Leonardo da Vinci
Observe the light and consider its beauty. Blink your eye and look at it. That which you see was not there at first, and that which was there is there no more.
Mark Twain
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Natalie Clifford Barney
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
William Butler Yeats
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.