Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.