The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates

It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
Pablo Picasso

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
Will Rogers

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers

I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
W. C. Fields

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Lou Holtz

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Nelson Mandela

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Aristotle

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Aristotle

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Erma Bombeck

Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau

What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Henry David Thoreau

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David Thoreau

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement Stone