Relationships can be boring - not people!

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give--which is everything.

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

And the hood of the horses shakes the crumbling field as they run.

The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.

Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

There is a tide in the affairs of women Which, taken at the flood, leads--God knows where.

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either of them being made.

He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind.

Who in this world of ours their eyes In March first open shall be wise; In days of peril firm and brave, And wear a Bloodstone to their grave.

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Ita!0 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.

Just go on . . . and faith will soon return.