Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

Friedrich Nietzsche

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

George Carlin

Only by showing the world the cataclysmic cost of a world divided can it appreciate the wonders of life and endless possibilities of a world united.

William Bailey

There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him.

Benjamin Franklin

I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.

Samuel Johnson

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

John Dryden

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

Karl Popper

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history.

Fidel Castro

In marriage, compromise nurtures the relationship.

Tim Allen

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.

Will Rogers

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

Tillie Olsen