All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

I don't believe in smart and stupid. But I do believe in those who try and does who don't.

Kimiko Minazako

The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?

H. L. Mencken

perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.my world just hasn't discovered the twist.

Elizabeth Kay

He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.

Ren

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Joseph Roux

You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

Adrian Tan

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

William Gilmore Simms

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Winston Churchill

Patriotism is not obedience to government. Patriotism is obedience to the principals for which government is supposed to stand.

Howard Zinn

It is a shame that when we have a good dream we are asleep at the time.

P.K. Shaw

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

Dick Van Dyke

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Theodore Roosevelt