Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that--perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims....

Oscar Wilde

All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is given a man fit to speak of this, to sing of this, to fight and work for this, in a great, victorious, enduring manner; there is given a Hero, -- the outward shape of whom will depend on the time and the environment he finds himself in.

Thomas Carlyle

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

Ezra Pound

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.

Anthony Swofford

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.

Francis Parker Yockey

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Oscar Wilde

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

Ian Mcewan

If I get married, it's something you really have to work at. It's hard enough to work at having a relationship with best friends and girls that are in the business.

Selma Blair

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

Stephen Leacock

I only answer to two people, myself and God.

Cher

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

Sara Shepard