Time is a game played beautifully by children.
-Heraclitus
Imagination is a quality given to a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour is provided to console him for what he is.
-Oscar Wilde
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
-Cato The Elder
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
-Marcus Aurelius
When a poet speaks to his own people, the voices of all other poets of other languages who have influenced him are speaking also.
-T. S. Eliot
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.