All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a

Pure love produces pure nonsense.

Jonathan Klinger

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Mark Twain

All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.

Jerry Saltz

Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.

Paulo Coelho

She was so fat that when she got on the scale a card came out saying one at a time.

Rodney Dangerfield

The history of a people is found in its songs.

George Jellinek

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

Aaliyah

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

James Russell Lowell

I love unique things that not everyone has. I believe its all about how you wear an outfit, not how much it costs or where it's from. Elegance is the key.

Sasha Jackson

We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

Thomas A. Bennett