My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

Friedrich Nietzsche

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Thomas B. Macaulay

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

Benjamin Spock

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

Jackie Mason

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

Alfred Tennyson

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

Harriet Tubman

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

Shawn Johnson

No sé, todavía qué es lo que separa el aprecio del amor.

Jane Austen

Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan, "Parade", March 2

Oh, trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it. And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.

E. V. Cooke

Don't remember me as too nice or beautiful or funny, because then you'll be disappointed.

Celia Johnson