Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

Jerry Saltz

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Leonardo da Vinci

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

Oliver Goldsmith

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

Sarah Dessen

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

Paulo Coelho

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Mikhail Gorbachev

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

We are many, many people and yet we are one. What we do today with our thinking, what we do tomorrow with our thoughts, what we do with our actions and our interactions with people determines the course of the universe itself.You are not powerless. You are not without power.

Little Crow, From The Gathering

The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice.Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again.

Will Rogers, August 12, 1929

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share.But whatever happens to you, you still have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analyses, you have got not to forget to laugh.

Katharine Hepburn