There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
Henry David Thoreau
Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
Samuel Johnson
I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass.
Lewis Thomas
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company.
When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
Vera Wang
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.
Blaise Pascal
Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.
Chevy Chase
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.
America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.
Bill Frist
kalau diinjak cacing akan bergelung. ini cerdik. dengan demikian berkurangnya peluang diinjak lagi. dalam bahasa moral: tahu diri
Friedrich Nietzsche
My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.
Jaron Lanier
In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.
David Mitchell
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare
But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.
Thomas Haden Church
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.
Sam Raimi
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
Jonathan Swift
It's amazing... to enjoy the results of your labor.
Michael Rady
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
Milton Friedman
Despair gives courage to a coward.
Thomas Fuller
She had made the choice for him - in a moment of flight and panic, but she had made it - not realizing that her Jace would rather die than be like this, and that she'd been not so much saving his life as damning him to an existence he would despise.
Cassandra Clare
The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
Dave Barry
The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.
Henry Hazlitt
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
Kate Bosworth
You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen
The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.
Robert Rainy
I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.
Thomas Frank
If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
John Barrymore
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes [Letter to von Humboldt, 1813].
Thomas Jefferson
Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.
Jerry Saltz
America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry Adams
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.
Margot Kidder
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