Happiness in this world when it comes comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit and it leads us a wild-goose chase and is never attained. Follow some other object and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Everyone chases after happiness not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
The future is purchased by the present.
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants chased from sleeping on the street chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas until finally we are so hungry sleepless smelly constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.
I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.
Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.
It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame but they don't have the money to hide from it.
I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career maybe even more. When I put them all together I know I am a net loser.
The institution of a public library containing books on education would be well adapted for the information of teachers many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.
Sometimes you follow your dreams. I say to the young people 'If you have a dream chase it.'
Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away and in their stead I beheld the horrors the corruption the evils and hypocrisy of society and as I stood among them a young wife a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
What some call health if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet isn't much better than tedious disease.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me give me liberty or give me death!
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.