I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.

Francis Bacon

The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

Neale Donald Walsch

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

May Sarton

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio.

William Shakespeare

I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed.

David Levithan

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

Eric Bently, "Introduction to Na

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

George Byron

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

JeanLuc Godard

There's more to life than books you know, but not much more

Steven Morrissey

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.

Samuel Johnson

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

William C. Bryant

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Oscar Wilde