"I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."

~ Samuel Johnson

Photograph by Paul Nicklen

"Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together."

~ Pearl S. Buck

Photograph by Orphan Cam/Shutterstock

"No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree."

~ W. C. Fields

Blue Shark - Azores

"Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go."

~ Truman Capote

Venice, Italy

"Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg."

~ Hans Christian Andersen

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived"

~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden