Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

William James

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand times.There is no primary or authoritative source for this in Twain's known writings or speeches.

Mark Twain, attibuted

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

Thomas Lynch

I think your alcohol intake has to change. You know, usually a big person feels they can drink anything they want to and as much as they want to and I've cut that way back.

Mike Ditka

When we think we lead we are most led.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

Charles Dudley Warner

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.

Chris Ware

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fuck rational thought

George Carlin

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

Barbara Smith

A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine

William Shakespeare