The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

Voltaire

The incorporation of a bank and the powers assumed have not, in my opinion, been delegated to the United States by the Constitution. They are not among the powers specially enumerated.

Thomas Jefferson

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Oscar Wilde

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

Doris Lessing

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

Curtis W. Fentress

The religious way is the deep way, the way that sees what physical eyes alone fail to see, the intangibles of the heart of every phenomenon. The religious way is the way that touches universal relationships; that goes high, wide and deep, that expands the feelings of kinship.

Sophia Lyon Fahs, Today's Childr

I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the sand in order not to face the evil quanta.

Albert Einstein

The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there.

Stephen King

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge, Outs

You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

Elizabeth Taylor

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Simone Weil

The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

Albert Einstein