A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on.

I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.

will.i.am

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Miguel de Cervantes

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Thomas Huxley

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

Johnny Carson

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Mal Pancoast

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Charles Lamb

To-day we have fewer dogmas, but I think that we have stronger principles. By a dogma I mean a deduction from facts which is only valid under certain conditions, and which becomes untrue if those conditions change. By a principle I mean something that is an eternal and universal truth.

John Buchan

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

H. G. Wells

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Paul De Man

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

Susie Orbach