Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
-George Bernard Shaw
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A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, Wow! What a Ride!
-Hunter S. Thompson
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something
-Steve Jobs
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
I do not see what use a man can be put to, whose word cannot be trusted. How can a wagon be made to go if it has no yoke-bar, or a carriage if it has no collar-bar?
-Confucius
