Quotaria

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my
own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild, harmless, rather engaging little things,
not at all like the staring defects in other
people's characters.
- Margaret Halsey

Life's a tough proposition, and the
first hundred years are the hardest.
- Wilson Mizner

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that
think and suspicious of men who try to.
- H. Mumford Jones

Preserving health by too severe
a rule is a worrisome malady.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

She was a woman who, between courses, could
be graceful with her elbows on the table.
- Henry James

"No winter lasts forever;
no spring skips its turn."
- Hal Borland