Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Stephen Leacock

This is precisely why I being a teacher! Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything. Has it not occurred to you, my poor puffed-up poppinjay, that there might be an excellent reason why the Headmaster of Hogwarts is not confiding every tiny detail of his plans to you? Have you never paused, while feeling hard-done-by, to note that following Dumbledore's orders has never yet led you into harm? No. No, like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognise danger, you alone are the only one clever enough to realise what the Dark Lord may be planning.

J.K. Rowling

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!

Jonathan Shapiro

Society is no comfort to one not sociable.

William Shakespeare

The universe never did make sense I suspect it was built on government contract.

Robert A. Heinlein

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Susan Sontag

Everything transitory is but an image.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What I stand for is what I stand on.

Wendell Berry

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

Source Unknown

Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.

Barbara Corcoran

Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, and so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

Charles Dudley Warner

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

Amiri Baraka