We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

William James

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.

Charlie Sheen

An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

Agatha Christie

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

Juliette Lewis

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

John Locke

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't believe that I'm better than anybody, but I do believe that I'll try harder than most and I hope that people just join me for a little bit of a ride.

Tom DeLonge

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

Tacitus

There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

Charles Baudelaire

We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?

Linda McCartney

If you mean to make your side of the argument appear plausible, do not prejudice the people against what you think truth by your passionate manner of defending it.

James Burgh

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

Joseph Sobran