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• And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,--comes, and lo!
  is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable....
• He who did well in war just earns the right To begin doing well in peace.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Luria, Act ii...
• Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that?
  Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!...
• He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Anarcharsis, v...
• If I had my life to live over, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.
  I would relax, I would limber up, I would be sillier than I have been this trip....
• Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Paracelsus, Part v...
• If I had my life to live over, I'd dare to make mistakes next time.
  I'd relax, I'd limber up. I would be sillier than I been this trip....
• It is easier to buy small plaster models of what you think life is than it is to live it.
• wannabee /won'*-bee/ n. (also, more plausibly, spelled `wannabe') [from a term recently used to describe Madonna fans who dress, talk, and act like their idol
  prob. originally from biker slang] A would-be hacker....