Calamity is man's true touchstone.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H. L. Mencken

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

William Gurnall

You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.

Valerie Simpson

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

Agatha Christie, Endless Night b

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.

Robert Mugabe

Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

Golda Meir

Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful.

William Shakespeare

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them??by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

Jane Austen

The unlived life is not worth examining.

Tom Morris

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

William Howard Taft