The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. – Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Category: Effort
Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Category: Ancestry, Ancestors
I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that werent really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening. – Ken Thompson Category: gardening
Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it. – Willie Aames Category: good
