It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

Teri Garr

It is legal because I wish it.

Louis XIV

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

M. Kathleen Casey

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Stephen King

We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.

St. Catherine of Genoa

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

Victor Hugo

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness

Friedrich Nietzsche

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.

G. K. Chesterton

Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fa

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

Thomas Jefferson