Percival Arland Ussher Famous Quotes
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
Percival Arland Ussher Quotations
"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."
Lin Yutang
"To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love."
Karl von Bonstetten
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
Jorge Luis Borges
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Harvard doesn't consider anyone a loss until he dies without a diploma, because they say he can always come back and finish."
Manley E Rogers
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone."
Tommy Cooper
"Change, when it comes, cracks everything open."
Dorothy Allison
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
Sandra Cisneros