I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.', Katherine Mansfield', New Zealand short story author (1888 - 1923)

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.', Henry Ford', US automobile industrialist (1863 - 1947)

It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.', Mark Twain', US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.', Voltaire', French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.', Michel de Montaigne', French essayist (1533 - 1592)

Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month, other just go over them.', Sally Poplin',