Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

Lucille Ball

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Adams

I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.

Jim Carrey

Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld, Ma

Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces, Faith and Love. Prayer is sublime.

Albert Pike

We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.

Michel de Montaigne

The Thames is liquid history.

John Burns

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

Margaret Fuller

Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable that's survival.

Demetri Martin

For there has never been a story nearly as tragic as the one of Frankenstein, except for that of Johnny Heart and his Francesca Valentine.

Rae Hachton

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Yann Martel