There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.