Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and ;groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

John Ruskin

Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible.

Hugh B. Brown

After all is said and done - more is said than done.

Anonymous

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Angela Carter

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

Garrison Keillor

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.

Alan Autry

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

W. C. Fields

Dont look for something that isn't there, because you're never going to find it

Jayden P

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith.

Brian Littrell

The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.

Virginia Woolf