Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

Clarence Darrow

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

Lucille Ball

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Frank Tyger

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

Drew Barrymore

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.

Abraham Lincoln

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Salvador Dali

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

Stevie Nicks

I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pocket. Money gives you the ability to make a difference in the world and, when used in a positive way, is a lot of fun.

Cat Cora

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Franz Kafka

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

Simone Weil

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

Max McKeown