“Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature’s monotony.”

-Guillaume Apollinaire

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”

-C. S. Lewis

“What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.”

-Victor Hugo

“Christmas… is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.”

-Freya Stark

“Love is everything it’s cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.”

-Erica Jong

“It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.”

-Anatole France

“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”

-Evan Esar

“A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.”

-E. E. Cummings

“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.”

-Jean Cocteau

“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”

-H. L. Mencken

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”

-Dr. Suess

“Work is the curse of the drinking class.”

-Oscar Wilde

“The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.”

-William B. Yeats

“Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer.”

-Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

“More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.”

-Doug Larson

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.”

-Robert Frost

“The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.”

-Iris Murdoch

“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.”

-Richard Armour

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.”

-Washington Irving

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'”

– Sydney J. Harris

“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don’t cheat with it.”

-Ernest Hemmingway

“I’ve been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains.”

-Nick Hornby

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”

-Kimberly Johnson

“The only real possession you’ll ever have is your character.”

-Tom Wolfe

“Music was my refuge.  I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

-Maya Angelou