“Generosity, when once she is set forward, knows not how to stop her progress; as her beauty is of that order which grows the more engaging upon nearer acquaintance.”
Nescit enim semel incitata liberalitas stare, cuius pulchritudinem usus ipse commendat.
Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer
Letter 11, 3.
Letters, Book V
“After all, only women are able really to love.”
Yasunari Kawabata book Snow Country
Source: Snow Country
Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Source: Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917), Chapter One
“The secret of life is to find out what one really wants.”
John Buchan book A Lodge in the Wilderness
Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. II, p. 43
“After all, you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.”
Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
2001 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2001ar/2001letter.html <br class="br">Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)
“until only infinity remained of beauty”
John Ashbery (1927–2017) poet from the United States
Source: Some Trees
