Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

G. K. Chesterton

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

John Morley

A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.

Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Victor Hugo

I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.

Julianna Baggott

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Nicolas Chamfort

To win you've got to stay in the game.

Claude M. Bristol

The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.

Denis Diderot

Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.

Christopher Hitchens

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.

Will Oldham

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile