What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish?

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!

Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.

To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

Be yourself, And take control of your own destiny. There is nothing more disgraceful in life,  Than living someone else’s life.

A man with a golden gun may have a ruthless heart... & may have a golden Heart too

I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.

Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

There isn't any way to libel the human race.

Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.

I've been labelled as the 'big girl' and I've not got a problem with that

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.

It's so easy to be mistaken about the future. Sometimes there are avant-gardes which believe themselves to be the avant-garde and which later find themselves to be absolutely dated.

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.