To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.

Billy Carter

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present

Samuel Johnson

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.

Dave Barry

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

Ambrose Bierce

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

William Arthur Ward

You embody all that I was ever able to concieve of beauty and fearlessness and strange purity. Therefore it is evident I do not see in you merely Count Emmerick's third sister, but, instead, that ageless lovable and loving woman long worshipped and sought everywhere in vain by all poets.

James Branch Cabell

how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there was anotherappleto slice into pieces.Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it's noon,that meanswe're inconsolable.Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.These our bodies, possessed by light.Tell me we'll never get used to it.

Richard Siken

I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated,' because I've always been skinny.

Carolyn Murphy

After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our faces.

Cynthia Ozick

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Virgil

Princes give me sufficiently if they take nothing from me, and do me much good if they do me no hurt; it is all I require of them.

Michel de Montaigne