Two Cents

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Ray Bradbury (1920 - ), advice to writers

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Self-Reliance

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)

The only paradise is paradise lost.
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)