What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Simone Weil

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

H. L. Mencken

But now I see I was not plucked for naught, And after in life's vase Of glass set while I might survive, But by a kind hand brought Alive To a strange place.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract it is merely a compact between men.

Epicurus

When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.

Ashley Tisdale

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Paulo Coelho

Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs.

Gary Miller

The most refined skills of color printing, the intricate techniques of wide-angle photography, provide us pictures of trivia bigger and more real than life. We forget that we see trivia and notice only that the reproduction is so good. Man fulfils his dream and by photographic magic produces a precise image of the Grand Canyon. The result is not that he adores nature or beauty the more. Instead he adores his camera

Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image, c

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

John Gall

My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.

Anna Held

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Mary Ellen Chase