Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

Boris Yeltsin

The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothes and jewels; the women who marry to get out of a tiresome job, or to get away from disagreeable relatives, or to avoid being called an old maid -- these are whores in everything but name. The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's worth.

Polly Adler

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

Publilius Syrus

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so much we are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size of the fight in the dog.

Mark Twain

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

Elizabeth Gaskell

A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel--until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion.

Ayn Rand, The Voice of Reason

Every animal knows more than you do.

American Indian Proverb, Nez Per

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

John Burroughs

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Charles Fillmore