Love, Michael Garrett Marino

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

- Michael Garrett Marino

Winter, William Shakespeare

Blow, blow, thou winter wind. Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.

- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Beauty, Spanish Proverb

The more a woman admires her face, the more she ruins her house.

- Spanish Proverb

Japan, Qin Gang (秦剛)

The essence of Japanese leaders' visits to the Yasukuni shrine is to beautify Japan's history of militaristic aggression and colonial rule. It is an attempt to overturn international society's just ruling on Japan's militarism and to challenge the results of World War II and the post-war international order.

- Qin Gang (秦剛), Beijing's foreign ministry spokesman, immediately after Abe's visit to the shrine (
Dec 26, 2013)

Writings, James Dickey

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

- James Dickey (1923-1997)

Advice, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Beauty, Christopher Paolini

Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting.

― Christopher Paolini (1983- ), Eragon and Eldest

Happiness, Booker T. Washington

I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

- Booker T. Washington (1858-1915)

Advice, Chinese Proverb

Not been on the Great Wall, not a great man.

- Chinese Proverb

War, Chester W. Nimitz

Among the Americans serving on Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

- Chester W. Nimitz (1885-1966)

Faith and Works, Bible, New Testament

Faith and Works.

Do you want proof, you ignoramus, that faith without works is useless?

+ Letter of James 2:20

http://www.usccb.org/bible/James/2

Women, H. L. Mencken

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t, they’d be married, too.

- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

Beauty, Khalil Gibran

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

- Kahlil Gibran (1983-1931)

아름다움은 얼굴에 있지 않습니다. 마음 속에 있는 빛입니다.

- Khalil Gibran

Beauty, Richard Armour

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin-skinned people.

- Richard Armour (1906-1989)

Beauty, Laurence J. Peter

Every girl should use beauty that Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

- Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990) Canadian teacher and author of the best-selling book The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong (1969)

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Laurence_J._Peter

Failure, Irish Proverb

The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.

- Irish Proverb

Heroine, Wonder Woman

I am Diana, Princess of the Amazons! I won't be denied!

- Wonder Woman, Justice League, Paradise Lost

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Justice_League