The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.
Mark Twain
I never used to realize it, I guess. I try and play it along and just not make trouble for people. Probably I never would have had any trouble at all if I hadn't run into Brett when they shipped me to England. I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have. Well, people were that way. To hell with people. The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling all that. Good advice, anyway. Not to think about it. Oh, it was swell advice. Try and take it sometime. Try and take it.
Ernest Hemingway
Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.
John Green
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Victor Hugo
I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. About a politician who had recently died
He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.
Charles Dickens
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.
One day as I came home early from work I saw a guy jogging naked. I said to the guy, Hey buddy . . . why are you doing that? He said, Because you came home early.
Rodney Dangerfield
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.
Jane Austen
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
Intelligence is enormously sexy.
Frank Langella
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.
Ayrton Senna
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
John W. Gardner
I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just since her has skyrocketed. It's unbelievable.
Jessica Simpson
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Health has always been an important thing to me. I exercise and try to take care of myself, and drink a lot of water! And I push that to my kids so that they can carry on that same energy.
Doug E. Fresh
In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?
The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Lord Chesterfield
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Incompatibility: In matrimony, a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Ambrose Bierce
There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
Orson Scott Card
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.
Armstrong Williams
When you see some evil you proceed to immediate action, you make an immediate attack to cure the symptom.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.
Nick Lachey
Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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