Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.

Mary Wesley

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Charles Dickens

love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Kahlil Gibran

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

George Bernard Shaw

If you don't do your part, don't blame God.

Billy Sunday

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.

Columba Bush

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

Christopher Hitchens

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

Saint Augustine

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

Work like an angel, dress like a demon, live like a ghost, and dream like a human.

Rebecca McKinsey

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

Michel de Montaigne