"Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification."

-- Publilius Syrus

#Modification Quotes #Plans Quotes

“No matter how good you are at sneaking, you can't ever sneak well enough so that mosquitoes won't find you, and no matter how worried and tense you are, or how hard you are trying to pay attention, you just can't help noticing when a cloud of mosquitoes comes for you like you're their first good meal since last fall.”
“I'm no use to anybody,' I say. 'I'm a cÃ©rÃ©brale, can't you see that?' Thinking how funny a book would be, called 'Just a CÃ©rÃ©brale or You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming'. Only, of course, to be accepted as authentic, to carry any conviction, it would have to be written by a man. What a pity, what a pity!”
“I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.”
“The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.”
“He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.”
“Love has no age, no limit; and no death.”

Source : John Galsworthy (2013). “The Forsyte Saga”, p.353, Lulu Press, Inc
“Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”
“As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.”

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