America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.

Dean Briggs

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

M. H. Alderson

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades

Mark Twain

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Charles Baudelaire

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Thomas Paine

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

Robert Anthony

Those who invoke Secular tyranny in contrast to religion are hoping that we will forget two things: the connection between the Christian churches and fascism, and the capitulation of the churches to National Socialism.

Christopher Hitchens

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing -- a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Thomas Carlyle

The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up.

Tony Parsons

Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

Renee Zellweger

Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.

Alfred Tennyson

Whoever extolls him as a God of love, does not think highly enough of love itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche