The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.

Hygiene is two thirds of health.

Proverb

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

Alexis Carrel, Reflections on Li

I don't watch reality TV. I'm cool.

Dave Attell

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

George Eliot

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman, any woman, with beautiful legs.

Dietrich. Marlene

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

Source Unknown

I would guess that any criticism about Wal-Mart could have some element of truth with 1,500,000 people.

Lee Scott

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

Aristotle

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry,but do you dream of Heaven?Have you ever wanted to die?

Tim Burton

If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

John Pierpont Morgan

Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship or statesmanship to a formula.

Dr. Louis Orr

Tsuki ni murakumo, hana ni kazeClouds over the moon, a storm over blossoms

Japanese Proverb