Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

The great source of pleasure is variety

Samuel Johnson

There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.

Aldous Huxley

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

Edward Jenner

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Samuel Johnson

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pick a sunset, and we'll ride off into it together.

Timothy M. Brenner

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.

Muriel Spark

At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.

Ernest Thompson Seton

I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Wanda Sykes

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

Chris Cooper

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

George Bernard Shaw

Somebody once said that Washington was a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy