“Some twenty years her senior, he preserved a gift that she supposed herself to have already lost--not youth's creative power, but its self-confidence and optimism.”
E. M. Forster
“There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.”
William Shakespeare
“This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.”
George W. Bush
“The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change, for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up”
Charles Morgan
“I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.”
“I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“A poet who has not produced a good poem before he is twenty-five, we may conclude cannot, and never will do so.”
William Wordsworth