quoting in an essay

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. ~Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow



History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. ~John Acton



Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? ~Jim Bouton



A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it. ~John Loengard, "Pictures Under Discussion"



The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. ~Ellen Glasgow



Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it.



Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb



Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. ~Richard Kline



What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. ~Gene Fowler



Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts. ~Author Unknown



Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. ~Susan B. Anthony



Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without. ~Martin H. Fischer



Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~Stanislaw Lec



Pleasure is the bait of sin. ~Plato



A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life. ~Lee Drake



The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. ~Mark Twain, What Is Man, 1906



There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor. ~Lord Mancroft, A Chinaman in the Bath, 1974



A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. ~James Beard



Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. ~Joan Wallach Scott



Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. ~Garth Brooks