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

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay

Mark Twain

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Baltasar Gracian

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

Yancy Butler

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Clare Boothe Luce, "Newsweek", J

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

Thomas Dekker

I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.

Tori Amos

People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

P. J. O'Rourke

Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.

John Conyers

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties.

Alice Duer Miller

Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.

Henry Miller

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.

Robert Plant