Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
-- Abstinence |
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
-- Achievement |
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
-- Acquaintance |
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
-- Action |
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
-- Action |
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
-- Action |
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
-- Adversity |
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
-- Age And Aging |
George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist
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