The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

A little learning is a dangerous thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,And drinking largely sobers us again.

Alexander Pope, Essay on Critici

I would never do a commercial for something that is embarrassing, and I think that people maybe have a different perspective on what is embarrassing or not. Some people think doing a Revlon hair commercial is really cool. To me, that's embarrassing, but World of Warcraft - not embarrassing, very cool.

Aubrey Plaza

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

William Hazlitt

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

Walter Gropius

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.(translated 1951)

Emile Durkheim, Suicide, bk. 3,

When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!

Alexandra Paul

The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.

Professor William Buechner

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Rabindranath Tagore

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Honore de Balzac

My wife only has sex with me for a purpose. Last night it was to time an egg.

Rodney Dangerfield

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles de Gaulle

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

Roger Ascham