When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. Campbell, Joseph
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. Shakespeare, William
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. Wilde, Oscar
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it. Byron, Lord
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it. Epictetus
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust l Plato
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad that they have to get better. Forbes, Malcolm
When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change – Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought. Blavatsky, H. P.
When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting. Cooley, Mason
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. Paine, Thomas
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill. Terence
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. Cicero
