The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age. – George Santayana Category: Age
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. – Thomas More Category: Age
Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect without esteem they cannot exist esteem is the first demand that they make of love. – Honore de Balzac Category: respect
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. – Herbert Spencer Category: Poetry
Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Life