My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.
Mike Singletary
Life isn't all fricassied frog and eel pie.
C.S. Lewis
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Henri Frederic Amiel, The Privat
Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.
Bob Riley
Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep.
Virginia Woolf
Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.
Jean Baptiste Lacordaire, Letter
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl Marx
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi.
George Orwell
Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.
Hesiod, Works and Days
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Katharine Hepburn
Every man is wanted and no man is wanted much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
Janet Erskine Stuart
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
Bill Gates
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
Camille Paglia
The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.
Bertrand Russell
I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.
Mitch Hedberg
I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
George Andrew Olah
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana, The Letters of
History is the essence of innumerable biographies
Thomas Carlyle
Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
Diogenes
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Walter Scott
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Paul Eldridge
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
Phyllis Diller
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
All this happened, more or less.
Kurt Vonnegut
What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
Oprah Winfrey
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt
All right, then, I'll go to hell.
Mark Twain
The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
Francesco Guicciardini, Counsels
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Thomas Szasz
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
Norman Mailer, The Deer Park
I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.
Elayne Boosler
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Le
Even in cultures where marriages are arranged by parents, you're never actually forbidden to fall in love with your mate.
Orson Scott Card
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