Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

Anatole France

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.

Mark Twain

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

Gina Barreca

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

Nina Garcia

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.

Mike Royko

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

Aristotle

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Buddha

I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

Kip Winger

Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.

Lewis H. Lapham

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

Robert Bork