Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
—David T. Wolf
Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It’s amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn’t even pay attention to at the time, a place that you didn’t even know had a particular smell.
—Emily Giffin in Something Borrowed
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
—John Webster
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
—Billy Wilder
We should remember that it is easy and foolish to sneer at the mistakes or barbarities of remote ages.
—Hermann Hesse
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
—Bob Edwards
For love is immortality.
—Emily Dickinson
How strange that the years and ocean between us have brought us closer together.
—Sarra Manning in You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
—Julie Andrews
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
—Mark Twain
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
—Richard Feynman
There is always the need to carry on.
—Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
—Theodore Parker
Why were girls in such a hurry to grow up? She would never understand. Childhood was magical. Leaving it behind was a magnificent loss.
—Sarah Addison Allen in The Peach Keeper
When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
—George Burns