I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.

Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.

Proverb

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

Richard Milhous Nixon

When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.

Suze Orman

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

Mahatma Gandhi

I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.

LL Cool J

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.

Terence

Smoking cures weight problems... Eventually...

Steven Wright

What's my favourite food? One you order out.

Abigail Breslin

Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?

Jandy Nelson

Too many people want to have written.

Terry Pratchett

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism.

Edward Abbey

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)