“PHILOSOPHY, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“Everything is endured—disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui—in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“the silly people don't know their own silly business.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“However, some desire is necessary to keep life in motion; and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

“When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'One word at a time,' and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time,...”

― Stephen King, The Stand

“The third principle is the motive: for instance when a man is moved by one whom he loves, to do good to someone: for whatever we do or suffer for a friend is pleasant, because love is the principal cause of pleasure.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles,...”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“A true man does what he will, not what he must.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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