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The life of a man is like a flower, blooming so gaily in a field. Then, along comes a goat, he eats it and the flower is gone! Anton Chekhov
To tell the truth, I don’t really understand the causes behind my runner’s blues. Or why now it’s beginning to fade. It’s too early to explain it well. Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about it is this: That’s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what’s going on. Like taxes, the tide rising and falling, John Lennon’s death, and miscalls by referees at the World Cup. Haruki Murakami
Another dawn flung itself across the river; a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face white from a nights' carouse. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nothing is truly beautiful unless it cannot be used for anything; everything that is useful is ugly because it is the expression of some need, and those of man are ignoble and disgusting, like his poor and infirm nature. Theophile Gautier
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. Emily Bronte
They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child. Paul Eluard
Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant. Erma Bombeck
John McGahern quote: "To leave the everpresent tension of Great Meadow was like..."
To leave the everpresent tension of Great Meadow was like shedding stiff, formal clothes or kicking off pinching shoes. John McGahern
Baroness Orczy quote: "Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed."
Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed. Baroness Orczy
Disdainful of fur and fretful, privately, about the cost of his buttons, Jerott Blyth sat like the born horseman he was, and watched discreetly for trouble. Dorothy Dunnett
For the record, I'd like to say that I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I have a chance to get even first"Kinsey Millhone, V is for Vengeance Sue Grafton
A land not mine, stillforever memorable, the waters of its oceanchill and fresh. Sand on the bottom whiter than chalk, and the air drunk, like wine, late sun lays barethe rosy limbs of the pinetrees. Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the dayis ending, or the world, or ifthe secret of secrets is inside me again. Anna Akhmatova
Ayn Rand quote: "There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all..."
There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain. Ayn Rand
They talk of rich folk being stuck-up and genteel, but for pure cast-iron pride of respectability there's naught like poor chapel folk. Why, 'tis as cold as the wind on Greenhow Hill -- aye, and colder, too, for it will never change. Rudyard Kipling

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