Being a bachelor is the first requisite of the man who wishes to form an ideal home.

BEVERLY NICHOLS

I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.

DICK MARTIN

She had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success—a beauty that is nothing more or less than a harmony of temperament and circumstances.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Beauty is the gift of God.

ARISTOTLE

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

KIN HUBBARD

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

NIKOLAI GOGOL

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has the right to blame us.

OSCAR WILDE

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his successes.

HOWARD W. NEWTON

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Every misery I miss is a new blessing.

IZAAK WALTON

I came to the conclusion that one of the reasons why I'm so blessed, I think, is because I reach so many people, and you never know whose life you are touching or affecting. And so, because your blessings come back to you based upon how you give them out . . . that's why I'm so . . . You know what I'm saying? You get it? OK, good.

OPRAH WINFREY

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

EZRA POUND

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

JOHN LECARRE

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

MARTIN LUTHER

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations—such is a pleasure beyond compare.

KENKO YOSHIDA

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years. The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.