"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied." ― Pearl S. Buck Topic(s): Great More From Pearl S. Buck "Order is the shape upon which beauty depends." "I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work." "You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea." More In Great "By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time."― Samuel Johnson "Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale."― Elsa Schiaparelli "Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars."― Henry David Thoreau