Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Ambrose Bierce

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Cyril Connolly

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.

Dave Barry

In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?

Amy Poehler

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Victor Hugo

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

Raymond Chandler

Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

George Herbert

Lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.

William Shakespeare

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

Daley Thompson

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Be it Valentine's Day, Father's Day or Mother's Day, I feel all days are reminders of some feelings. February 14 doesn't hold any special relevance for me.

Randeep Hooda

Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that

Huey Newton