It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. – Andre Gide Category: Age
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Category: Age
Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact. – Fyodor Dostoevsky Category: Adversity
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. – Josh Billings Category: Common Sense
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. – Samuel Johnson Category: Advertising
