How use doth
breed a habit in a man.
Shakespeare
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education,
and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Brooks Atkinson, Once
Around the Sun, 1951
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.
Roy Goodman
Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies
when it gets too far from music.
Ezra Pound
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Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky,
selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh
and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about
trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting
it: little men already.
Jean de La
Bruyère, Les Caractères, 1688
Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they
were five.
Pam Brown
But I firmly believe that any
man's finest hour, his greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is
the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies
exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots
haven't got the joke yet.
Oliver Herford
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