Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

I've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons, " said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be.

Look Below and You'll feel Rich, Look Above and You'll feel Poor

So, what did you learn?Curiosity asked the Cat, thenpoked her carcass with a stick.

Naxal flag will soon fly in delhi

The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.

There was a weird intimacy, sitting in a car together. Couples sat in cars. Cops and their partners. Strangers became unstrange, sharing a windshield view of the world.

A door once opened may be stepped through in either direction.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

When someone pushes you down you must get up and stand on your own two feet even if your scared to do it. Only you can set limits to your success.

I have a homosexual crush on most adolescents.