A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a mans life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. – Henry David Thoreau

Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little. – Thomas Aloysius Dorgan

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do shell expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life. – W. C. Fields

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. – Crowfoot, 1890, as quoted in Catch the Whisper of the Wind compiled by Cheewa Ja