When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly...I think Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.
When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.
DeForest Soaries
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Samuel Johnson
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
Carl Rowan
A simpler form of the same objection consists in saying that death ought not to be final, that there ought to be a second chance. I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given.
C.S. Lewis
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.
Jerry Rubin
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
Doug Coupland
The backseat produced the sexual revolution.
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Theodore Rubin
If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit
Stephen King
If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
Albert Brooks
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned.
Hjalmar Branting
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Rumi
I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.
Daniel Radcliffe
The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.
I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
Ben Hogan
To the Dark Lord,I know I will be dead long before you read this but I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret. I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more.R.A.B
J.K. Rowling
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.
I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't you, to realize that when World War II happened we were dying to go and help our country.
Julia Child
Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Jean Rostand
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Reality is inside the skull.
George Orwell
Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.
Paul Hornung
Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.
Martin Feldstein
I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.
Martha Reeves
The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
Jeff Bezos
I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
Ambrose Bierce
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
George Bernard Shaw
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.
H. R. TrevorRoper
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