The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.

Claudette Colbert

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Anais Nin

Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.

C.S. Lewis

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

Dave Barry

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

Dan Quayle

Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be uneconomic you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.

E. F. [Ernst Friedrich] Schumach

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

Michel de Montaigne

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

Marilyn Hacker

Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of his idolatry.

William B. Ullathorne

The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

Sir Peter Medawar

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

John Stuart Mill

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

Marilyn Monroe