The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

J. C. Macaulay

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Thomas Carlyle

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

Matthew Arnold

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

K. Eric Drexler

Puns are a form of humor with words.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

And so, too, I speak of love: he who is held by it is held by the strongest of bonds, and yet the stress is pleasant. Moreover, he can sweetly bear all that happens to him. When one has found this bond, he looks for no other.

Meister Eckhart

The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

Edgar Allan Poe

He understands not only with his brain but with his heart. And that might be called love. Not quite sure, but maybe that's the key.

Anne Bancroft

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

Polly Toynbee

I don't know. But I know that I'm at the stage of my life where I want , not .I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.And I also know better than to dream about things that can't happen.

Jodi Picoult

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

I fall in love every time. And I don't really fall in love a lot, but when I do, I fall hard.

Katy Perry