We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Marie von-Ebner-Eschenbach (1830 – 1916) Austrian Writer

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

Ethel Barrymore (1879 – 1959) American Actress

No obstacles fell in his way that seemed to him insurmountable.  He might be defeated, as he sometimes was, but he shrank from no hardship through impatience, he fled no danger through cowardice.

J.P. Morgan writing about Napoleon Bonaparte

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress.  Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

Maya Angelou b. 1928 American writer and entertainer