Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

Weel, ma´am' said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; 'when I ha´finished off, I mun quit this part, and try another. Fortnet or misfortnet, a man can but try; there´s now to be done wi´out tryin -cept laying down and dying.

Charles Dickens

Faith is believing what you know ain't so.

Mark Twain

Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed.

Abraham Lincoln

I had not the least idea of a gamekeeper's occupation being so dangerous - there had never been such a person employed on the Longbourn estate - and just as I had spent half the previous night wondering about Peter, I spent half the next one worrying about him.

Jennifer Paynter

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

I knew a girl that was so fat that when guys had sex with her they had to ask for directions.

Rodney Dangerfield

There He taught me the science full of sweetness. And there I gave to Him Myself without reserve; There I promised to be His bride. ~ 27

John of the Cross

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

Stephen Bayley, Taste, pt. 1, Ta

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Herbert Hoover

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Andy Warhol

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

John Steinbeck