It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.

P.G.Wodehouse 'Ring for Jeeves'

She looked at the paper and she looked at the snow. But it must have been snowing all day. It could not have just started. There was no sound of traffic; in the swirling wastes of the vacant lot children circled a bonfire; a car, buried at the curb, winked its headlights: help, help! silent, like the heart's distress.

Truman Capote, 'Master Misery'

Жизнь не бывает справедлива, но, пожалуй, так оно и лучше для большинства из нас.

Оскар Уайльд

I've heard some rubbish in my time. Every time I opened my mouth, as a matter of fact.

Blackadder, Stephen Fry

Everything comes about just as we desired, but only when we no longer desire it

M.Proust

If you are tired of walking, run.

Tiger Woods