Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.

Decimus Magnus Ausonius

I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.

Stephanie Mills

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Henry David Thoreau

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

Grover Cleveland

We must picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives with the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

C.S. Lewis

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes

George Bernard Shaw

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Horace

Interviewer: So Jeff, what are your main musical influences? Jeff (after a long pause): Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams....And Zeppelin. Totally.

Jeff Buckley

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

Tom Robbins

My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.

Rick Perry

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

Carrot Top

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.

Peter Brimelow